Senior Kubernetes Engineer – Data Platform

Job description

Location: UK Department: Data Operations Reporting to: Head of Platform Engineering Role Summary We are hiring a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to help design and scale a Kubernetes‑native data platform powering large‑scale data ingestion, transformation, and analytics workloads. This role sits at the intersection of cloud‑native platform engineering and big‑data systems , focused on enabling reliable, observable, and cost‑efficient compute at scale. You’ll work on core platform capabilities —from Kubernetes operators and data processing patterns to storage, metadata, and observability—supporting teams building modern data products.This is a hands‑on engineering role with strong ownership, technical influence, and real production impact. What You’ll Do: - Design and build Kubernetes‑centric platform services for distributed data workloads - Implement scalable data processing patterns integrated with object storage (S3) - Develop and optimise data ingestion and transformation pipelines (Spark‑based) - Build and maintain metadata, lineage, and governance capabilities - Improve platform observability using metrics, logs, and tracing - Collaborate with platform, data engineering, and infra...