Senior Data Engineer in Bristol

Senior Data Engineer

Bristol

12-Month Contract

Paying up to £79p/h (Outside IR35)

Role Overview: Our client a large Aerospace company is looking for a experienced Senior Data Engineer with to assist with building and managing data pipelines using the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and Apache NiFi

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable data pipelines using the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and Apache NiFi.
• Implement data ingestion, transformation, and integration processes, ensuring data quality and security.
• Collaborate with data architects and security teams to ensure compliance with security policies and data governance standards.
• Manage and monitor large-scale data flows in real-time, ensuring system performance, reliability, and data integrity.
• Develop robust data models to support analytics and reporting within secure environments.
• Perform troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning of data pipelines and the Elastic Stack.
• Build dashboards and visualizations in Kibana to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery for data systems, implementing appropriate backup and replication strategies.
• Document data architecture, workflows, and security protocols to ensure smooth operational handover and audit readiness.

Required Skillset:

• Experience working in government, defence, or highly regulated industries with knowledge of relevant standards.
• Experience with additional data processing and ETL tools like Apache Kafka, Spark, or Hadoop
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK for data infrastructure.
• Understanding of ML algorithms, their development and implementation
• Confidence in developing end-to-end solutions
• Experience with infrastructure as code e.g. Terraform, Ansible