Mid-Level Data Engineer
Leeds | Contract
£400 - £450/day | Inside IR35
Are you ready to take your Data Engineering skills to the next level?
Elevation Recruitment Group are working with a forward-thinking tech company in Leeds, who is looking for a Data Engineer to help develop and scale large telemetry pipelines across OpenShift and Kafka.
This is your chance to work with modern tools, solve meaningful engineering problems, and make a real impact on platform reliability and insight.
What you'll be doing:
* Building and supporting telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces
* Developing Kafka producers and consumers, managing schemas and topics
* Contributing to resilient streaming and enrichment services
* Integrating telemetry into Splunk for dashboards and alerting
* Implementing OpenTelemetry for tracing, metrics, and structured logging
* Helping shape schema governance with Avro/Protobuf
* Collaborating with Platform & SRE teams to improve observability and SLOs
Key Skills & Experience:
1. Hands-on Kafka experience (producers/consumers, schema registry)