Principal Data Platform Engineer

About the role

As a Principal Data Platform Engineer at RWS, you will be the most senior technical authority on our data platform. You will architect and implement a scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data platform, setting the engineering standards, patterns and guardrails that the wider Data Engineering team builds on.

What you'll do

• Build Infrastructure as Code: You'll create a reusable, modular Terraform codebase so that provisioning new environments and data products is fast and repeatable
• Automate Delivery: You'll implement CI/CD pipelines that give us automated, controlled and auditable deployments of both infrastructure and data code
• Scale Delivery with AI: You'll leverage AI agents and automation to accelerate pipeline delivery and raise the throughput of the wider engineering team

What you need

• Terraform
• CI/CD
• GCP
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Azure
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Helm
• ETL
• BigQuery
• Cloud security
• IAM
• Firewalls