Analytics Solution Engineer - Inside IR35 - Remote

Analytics Solution Engineer - Inside IR35 - Remote

Role Overview

This role sits at the intersection of Data Engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering within the App Reporting team. You will be responsible for maintaining, improving, and operating critical data platforms - primarily Azure Databricks and Palantir Foundry - ensuring they are reliable, scalable, secure, and fully automated.

The role focuses heavily on platform reliability, infrastructure as code, and operational excellence, while also supporting Data Engineers in delivering high-quality analytics pipelines. You will play a key role in incident management, automation of manual processes, and continuous improvement of platform tooling and workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Reliability

• Maintain and improve the Azure Databricks and Palantir Foundry platforms to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability

• Act as a Site Reliability Engineer for the data platforms, ensuring systems run as intended and meet availability expectations

• Handle incidents, outages, alerts, and operational issues, including root cause analysis and preventative improvements

• Implement and maintain health checks, monitoring, and alerting

DevOps & Automation

• Design, implement, and maintain Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and management

• Own and improve release processes, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation

• Manage platform artefacts including clusters, secrets, releases, and configurations

• Perform GitHub peer reviews and uphold software ownership and quality standards

Data Engineering Enablement

• Provide platform and DevOps support to Data Engineers building pipelines

• Enable and support data pipelines within Palantir Foundry and Azure Databricks

• Assist with performance optimisation, pipeline reliability, and operational readiness

Analytics Infrastructure & Operations

• Build and maintain analytics infrastructure to support reporting and redline initiatives

• Improve operational processes across the data platform estate

• Support audit requirements through data analysis, operating data restores, and immutable backups

Cloud & Infrastructure Operations

• Manage networking, access control, and secrets management

• Support and maintain:

  • Power BI Gateways

  • Event Hub throughput units

  • Serverless compute clusters

  • Reserved VM capacity

• Ensure infrastructure meets security, governance, and compliance standards

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong experience with Azure Databricks

• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

• DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

• Git and peer review workflows

• Python, PySpark, and SQL

• Cloud operations within Azure

To apply for this role please submit your CV or contact Dillon Blackburn (see below)

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