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Data Engineer

South Bank
3 weeks ago
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Data Engineer

Must be London-based, able to work from site in London with occasional travel to Croydon

SC Clearance required / or eligible for clearance

Contract duration: 2 years +

Up To £41,000 per annum, depending on experience

Job Purpose/The Role:

We are seeking 3 experienced Data Engineers to support a high-profile Public Sector client. These roles will be part of a large project, contributing to the ongoing development and live support of critical systems within a secure, agile, and data-driven environment.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary Agile & DevOps team to deliver data solutions and maintain live systems.
Apply best practices for data integration, transformation, and delivery in a secure and scalable environment.
Support data pipelines and ETL processes across various technologies and cloud platforms
Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot systems using a wide array of tools and platforms.
Contribute to automation and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) efforts.
Engage directly with clients and stakeholders, demonstrating excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

The required skills are:

Attention to detail and ability to follow defined processes
Drive and commitment to learn new technical concepts quickly
Familiarity with Agile & DevOps ways of working
Familiarity with and experience of using UNIX Knowledge of CI toolsets
Good client facing skills and problem solving aptitude
DevOps knowledge of SQL Oracle DB Postgres ActiveMQ Zabbix Ambari Hadoop Jira Confluence BitBucket ActiviBPM Oracle SOA Azure SQLServer IIS AWS Grafana Oracle BPM Jenkins Puppet CI and other cloud technologies.

Your Skills:

Excellent attention to detail and ability to follow defined processes.
Strong commitment and ability to quickly learn new technical concepts.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
Experience with UNIX environments and associated toolsets.
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply

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