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This role presents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual to develop and grow their skills and knowledge within a thriving organisation.
What you will do:
- 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.
- UK DV Clearance or the ability obtain it.
- 3+ years of experience working as a Data Engineer in secure or regulated environments.
- Expertise in the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for data ingestion, transformation, indexing, and visualization.
- Strong experience with Apache NiFi for building and managing complex data flows and integration processes.
- Knowledge of security practices for handling sensitive data, including encryption, anonymization, and access control.
- Familiarity with data governance, data quality management, and compliance standards in secure environments.
- Experience in managing large-scale, real-time data pipelines and ensuring their performance and reliability.
- Strong scripting and programming skills in Python, Bash, or other relevant languages.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with a focus on data security and infrastructure as code.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on ensuring data accuracy, quality, and security.
- Proactive problem-solving mindset and ability to troubleshoot complex data pipeline issues.
- 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 developing end-to-end solutions.
- Experience with infrastructure as code e.g. Terraform, Ansible.
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Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
