We are looking for a Data Operations Engineer to join one of Adroit's clients, a global independent price reporting agency covering metals, mining, agriculture, forest products and energy transition markets.

This role will help modernise the organisation’s data infrastructure, ensuring data platforms built on Snowflake, Dagster and Qlik remain performant, resilient and secure.

You will collaborate closely with Data, Engineering and Cyber teams to align operational goals, challenge existing processes and drive operational excellence.

We are looking for someone from a DevOps, platform engineering or big data operations background who understands how data platforms function operationally, and who can:

• Support and operate data pipelines covering ingestion, transformation, storage and serving.
• Help ensure the performance, resilience and security of data platforms across Snowflake, Dagster and Qlik.
• Work with Data, Engineering and Cyber teams to align operational goals and improve processes.
• Contribute to monitoring, observability and incident response for data platforms.

• A genuine passion for data and AI platforms, with a desire to develop deeper DataOps expertise.
• Understanding of how data moves through systems: pipelines, ingestion, transformation, storage and serving.
• Exposure to big data concepts such as data warehouses, lakes, streaming and batch processing.
• Operational experience with a cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python or PowerShell.
• Monitoring and observability knowledge.
• A problem-solving approach and strong cross-team collaboration skills.

• Experience operating big data platforms such as Spark, Kafka, Databricks or Hadoop.
• Snowflake or other cloud data warehouse experience.
• Familiarity with data orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow.
• Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Git / GitHub version control expertise.
• Understanding of RBAC and identity management.
• Awareness of data backup, restore and integrity practices.
• Azure cybersecurity awareness.