Data Engineer

Overview

Data Engineer (Contract)

9+ Month Contract based in Sheffield
395 - 442 per day InsideIR
35
BPSS clearance required - candidates must be eligible

My client is seeking a Data Engineer to design and operate large-scale telemetry and observability data pipelines within a modern Open Shift and Kafka ecosystem. This role is central to enabling proactive, Level 4 observability, delivering high-quality metrics, logs, and traces to support platform reliability, operational insight, and automation.

• Design, implement and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest and process Open Shift telemetry (metrics, logs, traces)
• Stream telemetry through Kafka (producers, topics, schemas) and build resilient consumer services for enrichment and transformation
• Engineer multi-tenant observability data models, ensuring data lineage, quality controls and SLAs across streaming layers
• Integrate processed telemetry into Splunk for dashboards, analytics, alerting and operational insights
• Implement schema management and governance using Avro/Protobuf, including versioning and compatibility strategies
• Build automated validation, replay and backfill mechanisms to ensure data reliability and recovery
• Instrument services using Open Telemetry, standardising tracing, metrics and structured logging
• Apply LLMs to enhance observability, such as query assistance, anomaly summarisation and runbook generation
• Collaborate with Platform, SRE and Application teams to align telemetry, alerts and SLOs
• Ensure pipelines meet security, compliance and best-practice standards
• Produce clear documentation covering data flows, schemas, dashboards and operational runbooks

• Strong hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines with Kafka (producers/consumers, schema registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL/KStreams)
• Experience with Open Shift / Kubernetes telemetry, including Open Telemetry and Prometheus
• Proven capability integrating telemetry into Splunk (HEC, Universal Forwarders, sourcetypes, CIM, dashboards, alerting)
• Solid data engineering skills in Python (or similar) for ETL/ELT, enrichment and validation

Please apply for immediate interview!

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