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 OpenShift 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 OpenTelemetry 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) • Knowledge of OpenShift/Kubernetes telemetry (Otel, Prometheus) • Experience sending data into Splunk • Strong Python skills for data processing and validation • Curious, collaborative, and eager to tackle complex observability challenges If you’re a Data Engineer ready to make an impact, apply today and let’s get you on the path to challenging, rewarding work.