Our client is a fast-growing social enterprise on a mission to eliminate food waste. They are looking for a skilled Data & DevOps Engineer to join their team for an initial 6-month engagement with the possibility of extension. This is an integrated role combining data engineering with hands-on DevOps and platform enablement - ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of data pipelines, infrastructure, and continuous delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and serving data across systems
• Develop and manage data models and schemas supporting analytics, reporting, and operational use cases
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency including validation, monitoring, and alerting
• Own data infrastructure and environment management, including provisioning and optimisation of data storage and processing systems
• Build and optimise ETL/ELT workflows for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Integrate data pipelines into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated and repeatable deployments
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or Azure Bicep for provisioning Azure resources
• Own and continuously improve Azure DevOps pipelines including structure, reuse, and deployment automation
• Monitor system performance, data pipeline health, and infrastructure reliability
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics stakeholders across Agile ceremonies
• Contribute to application development in PHP (Laravel) and Vue.js as capacity permits

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 4 years of experience in data engineering or a related field, with proven pipeline experience
• Strong experience with data processing and transformation tools and frameworks
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL)
• Experience with data modelling and designing scalable data architectures
• Practical experience delivering infrastructure changes in Microsoft Azure
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform and/or Azure Bicep)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and pipeline optimisation
• Familiarity with containers, secrets management, and monitoring/observability concepts
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript or other relevant programming languages
• Experience working with APIs and integrating data from distributed systems
• Experience with GitHub and building modular, maintainable systems
• Familiarity with PHP (Laravel) and Vue.js is an advantage