Data Engineer

Mid-Level Data Engineer Leeds | Contract £400 - £450/day | Inside IR35 Are you ready to take your Data Engineering skills to the next level? Elevation Recruitment Group are working with a forward-thinking tech company in Leeds, who is looking for a Data Engineer to help develop and scale large telemetry pipelines across Open Shift and Kafka. This is your chance to work with modern tools, solve meaningful engineering problems, and make a real impact on platform reliability and insight.

What you'll be doing:
Building and supporting telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces Developing Kafka producers and consumers, managing schemas and topics Contributing to resilient streaming and enrichment services Integrating telemetry into Splunk for dashboards and alerting Implementing Open Telemetry for tracing, metrics, and structured logging Helping shape schema governance with Avro/Protobuf Collaborating with Platform & SRE teams to improve observability and SLOs Key

Skills & Experience:

Hands-on Kafka experience (producers/consumers, schema registry)