Data Engineer - Contract - 9+ Months

Data Engineer (Contract)
9+ Month Contract based in Sheffield
£395 - £442 per day InsideIR35
BPSS clearance required - candidates must be eligible

My client is seeking a Data Engineer to design and operate large-scale telemetry and observability data pipelines within a modern OpenShift and Kafka ecosystem. This role is central to enabling proactive, Level 4 observability, delivering high-quality metrics, logs, and traces to support platform reliability, operational insight, and automation.

Responsibilities:

* Design, implement and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest and process
OpenShift telemetry (metrics, logs, traces)
* Stream telemetry through Kafka (producers, topics, schemas) and build resilient
consumer services for enrichment and transformation
* Engineer multi-tenant observability data models, ensuring data lineage, quality
controls and SLAs across streaming layers
* Integrate processed telemetry...