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Senior Data Platform Engineer – Elastic Stack / Apache NiFi | Defence | Bristol
Inside IR35 | On-site
We're supporting a major defence technology programme looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a secure enterprise platform team.
This role is focused on building and maintaining secure, scalable data pipelines rather than traditional analytics or reporting. You'll work with technologies including Apache NiFi and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana) to deliver resilient data integration platforms supporting mission-critical environments.
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You'll be involved in:
- Designing and maintaining enterprise data pipelines
- Building secure data ingestion and transformation workflows
- Developing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana solutions
- Monitoring and optimising high-volume data platforms
- Performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Disaster Recovery and platform resilience
- Working closely with architects and security teams within a highly regulated environment
Experience we're looking for:
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- Apache NiFi
- Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK)
- Data Pipelines / Data Integration
- Linux
- Python, Bash or similar scripting
- SQL
- Enterprise data platforms or observability solutions
- Experience within secure or highly regulated environments would be advantageous
📍 Bristol (Hybrid)
🔒 Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.
If you'd like to find out more, please get in touch for a confidential discussion.
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