What is the opportunity?

Join our Data Solutions Data Platform Engineering team in this exciting time as we implement Bank of Ireland's new cloud based data platform.

As Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will help design, implement and manage Infrastructure As Code (IAC) for our Data pipeline eco-system on our cloud environment and work with our agile delivery teams to engineer high quality solutions for all out data platforms.

We work in a very collaborative environment with a learning culture and you will use your experience to help guide future development across the team, the tools we use, help drive automation and introduce new and exciting engineering patterns and frameworks!

In this Role, you will

• Design, Develop and Manage our Infra As Code eco-system underpinning our cloud based data platform
• Enable our CI/CD pipelines to build out complex data flows and process's
• Help us support the monitoring and telemetry for the performance of our data pipelines and API's, identify issues, and implement solutions
• Implement and manage security tools and best practices to ensure a secure environment in compliance with security policies
• Advocate and drive Automation, and maintain metrics, logs, and reports
• Continuously improve the system architecture to ensure it supports the growth and technical advancements of the bank
• Keep up to date with advancements and best practices of Data and Cloud Platforms and related technologies
• Ensure engineering teams are following Platform engineering best practices and standards while driving improvements and efficiencies and mentor less experienced team members on best practices and standards

What Will Make You Stand Out

We are seeking an engineer with enthusiasm and a growth mentality who prioritises collaboration with others. You are proactive to achieve the necessary outcome while improving processes, team knowledge and tooling along the way!

You have a proven track record as Platform Engineer managing Infra As Code and DevOps for cloud based data platforms with 5+ years working in an agile team in a technical capacity. You have deep technical knowledge Cloud Technologies and Architecture, preferably AWS.

Key Technical Skills Required:

• Experience with administration and configuration of Cloudera CDP or similar Data platforms in the cloud e.g. Databricks., Snowflake..
• Strong experience in working with Kafka ecosystem. This includes the administration and configuration of the following products - (Kafka Brokers, Connect, Zookeeper) and Apache Nifi
• Proficiency in administering Cloudera clusters, ensuring high availability and performance optimization
• Extensive knowledge of Big Data technologies including Kafka, Hive, Spark, HBase, and PySpark
• Strong experience with security concepts and tools, including identity and access management, encryption, and security groups.
• AWS Administration experience - S3, EC2, EKS, ELK, IAM, VPC, EBS,KMS

• Proficiency in any scripting language such as Python

Experience with any of the following will help you to stand out but is not essential;

• Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools like Terraform/OpenTofu or equivalent , ansible
• Experience of DevOps tools & technologies such as Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with configuration and monitoring and logging tools like Splunk, Grafana, ELK stack, or CloudWatch

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More About The team

Our growing and exciting Data Solutions Engineering team provides the engineering services for the Group's Operational Data store, Enterprise Data Warehouse and Enterprise Data Lake. We sit within the Group Data & Analytics Office which is the core team for all things data in the bank.

We deliver the data elements to support Digital, Customer, Regulatory and other change initiatives that drive the Group's transformation agenda.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!