Senior Platform Engineer

This is a hybrid role available as a 6 month contract which commences 15 December 2023.

Coders Connect has partnered with a growing Energy data company that is rapidly taking steps in the professionalisation of its organization. From startup to scaleup they develop reliable and innovative ICT infrastructures for regional and national grid operators. Specialising in collecting user data and making it accessible which other market parties can use to develop new services. With these data services they are giving the energy transition and thus the sustainability of the Netherlands plenty of room.

The team is responsible for the delivery of Platform Solutions in the field of Insight & Analytics Trajectory Control. The solutions are currently used by two DevOps teams and grid operators. An essential part of the solutions offered is Self Service (preferably declarative via GitOps).

A core aspect of IT Foundation is the delivery of platform services that provide agile solutions that can be developed in fast short and small iterations (integrate early & integrate often working complex systems evolve from simple working systems).

This gives you energy
You are a versatile Senior Platform Data Engineer with a cando mentality that is inspired by innovation. During your deployment you will broaden your field of work to other platform services that are related to the data domain. You build capabilities within the Platform Solution Insight & Analytics in a selfservice data platform. The goal: to unburden DataOps teams. We build pipelines integrations and automation layers. We orchestrate and think along in the architecture of the data analytics landscape. Think for example of thinking along with requirements and wishes for data governance and data management tooling implementing them and building automation layers around them.
DataOps teams are ultimately the teams that build data products for the energy market. The platform team takes ownership of the technical substratum that facilitates and unburdens them.

We are a relatively small specialist team which is easy to approach for the DevOps teams. That s important because they are our customers. We have a fixed office day on Thursdays. In addition we expect you to be willing to work at the office for a second day.

Requirements

This is what you re going to do

• You take ownership of the data analytics landscape: data storage warehousing ETL/ELT and data management tooling
  
• You create your own user stories for the work you are responsible for
  
• You participate in refinements where you discuss the work with your team members
  
• You get energy from giving demos to your customers
  

You take this with you

• You have a strong analytical understanding and can communicate adequately with stakeholders involved
  
• You have at least 5 years of experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform Gitlab/Github pipelines Kubernetes deployments)
  
• You have experience managing or using Tableau or similar dashboarding software
  
• You have experience in managing data warehouses such as Snowflake or Redshift
  
• You have experience with software development preferably with Python Golang and/or Javascript
  

Also useful

• Experience with Tableau and/or Snowflake
  
• A university degree