GIOS Technology
Data Engineer – Observability & Telemetry
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This role is for a Data Engineer – Observability & Telemetry, offering a hybrid contract in Sheffield for 6 months at a competitive pay rate. Key skills include Kafka, Open Telemetry, Python, and data pipeline experience, particularly in banking.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
328
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🗓️ - Date
February 4, 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
#Data Pipeline #Compliance #Data Engineering #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Observability #Python #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Kubernetes #CLI (Command-Line Interface) #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Security #Prometheus #JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) #Splunk
Role description
I am hiring for Data Engineer – Observability & Telemetry
Location: Sheffield - Hybrid / 3 days Per week in Office
• Hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines with 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.
• Experience integrating telemetry into Splunk using HEC, Universal Forwarders, source types, CIM, dashboards, and alerting.
• Solid data engineering experience in Python (or similar languages) for ETL/ELT, enrichment, and validation.
• Understanding of event schemas (Avro, Protobuf, JSON), data contracts, and backward/forward compatibility.
• Familiarity with observability frameworks and the ability to drive maturity toward proactive, automated insights.
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices for data pipelines, including secret management, RBAC, and encryption in transit and at rest.
Key Skills: Kafka / Open Telemetry / Open shift / Observability / Python / ETL / ELT / Banking
I am hiring for Data Engineer – Observability & Telemetry
Location: Sheffield - Hybrid / 3 days Per week in Office
• Hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines with 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.
• Experience integrating telemetry into Splunk using HEC, Universal Forwarders, source types, CIM, dashboards, and alerting.
• Solid data engineering experience in Python (or similar languages) for ETL/ELT, enrichment, and validation.
• Understanding of event schemas (Avro, Protobuf, JSON), data contracts, and backward/forward compatibility.
• Familiarity with observability frameworks and the ability to drive maturity toward proactive, automated insights.
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices for data pipelines, including secret management, RBAC, and encryption in transit and at rest.
Key Skills: Kafka / Open Telemetry / Open shift / Observability / Python / ETL / ELT / Banking
