GIOS Technology
Data Engineer – Observability & Telemetry Platforms
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This role is for a Data Engineer – Observability & Telemetry Platforms in Sheffield, hybrid (3 days in-office). Contract length and pay rate are unspecified. Key skills include Kafka, Open Shift, Kubernetes, Python, and data pipeline security best practices.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
416
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🗓️ - Date
February 6, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Prometheus #Cloud #Data Pipeline #CLI (Command-Line Interface) #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Kubernetes #JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) #Observability #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Security #Data Engineering #Python #Compliance
Role description
I am hiring for Data Engineer – Observability & Telemetry Platforms
Location: Sheffield - Hybrid / 3 days Per week in Office
• Hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines using Kafka, including producers/consumers, schema registry, and tools such as Kafka Connect, KSQL, or Kafka Streams.
• Proficiency with Open Shift and Kubernetes telemetry, including Open Telemetry, Prometheus, and related CLI tooling.
• Solid data engineering skills using Python (or similar languages) for ETL/ELT, enrichment, and validation workflows.
• Strong understanding of event schemas and data contracts using Avro, Protobuf, or JSON, including backward and forward compatibility strategies.
• Experience working with hybrid cloud and multi-cluster telemetry architectures.
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices for data pipelines, including RBAC, secret management, and encryption in transit and at rest.
Key Skills: Open Telemetry / Open Shift / Kubernetes / Banking / Kafka / ETL / Data Pipelines / CLI tooling
I am hiring for Data Engineer – Observability & Telemetry Platforms
Location: Sheffield - Hybrid / 3 days Per week in Office
• Hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines using Kafka, including producers/consumers, schema registry, and tools such as Kafka Connect, KSQL, or Kafka Streams.
• Proficiency with Open Shift and Kubernetes telemetry, including Open Telemetry, Prometheus, and related CLI tooling.
• Solid data engineering skills using Python (or similar languages) for ETL/ELT, enrichment, and validation workflows.
• Strong understanding of event schemas and data contracts using Avro, Protobuf, or JSON, including backward and forward compatibility strategies.
• Experience working with hybrid cloud and multi-cluster telemetry architectures.
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices for data pipelines, including RBAC, secret management, and encryption in transit and at rest.
Key Skills: Open Telemetry / Open Shift / Kubernetes / Banking / Kafka / ETL / Data Pipelines / CLI tooling
