Senior Data Platform Engineer
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The client is a Singapore-based data consultancy seeking a hands‑on Senior Infrastructure Engineer to deploy and operate the ingestion and distributed-storage layer of a large‑scale on‑premise data platform.
This is an initial six‑month contract, with the potential for extension or conversion to a permanent position based on business requirements and individual performance.
Key Responsibilities- Design, deploy and operate scalable batch and streaming ingestion services in an on‑premise or hybrid environment.
- Build and support high‑throughput data ingestion using Apache Kafka and dltHub or comparable ingestion frameworks.
- Containerise platform components using Docker and deploy and operate production workloads on Kubernetes.
- Deploy and administer Ceph‑based distributed storage, covering capacity, performance, availability and recovery.
- Build and maintain lakehouse storage using Apache Iceberg tables and Apache Polaris catalogues.
- Integrate ingestion and storage services with downstream Spark, Trino, ClickHouse and transformation workloads.
- Monitor platform health, throughput, storage and logs using VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs or comparable tools.
- Troubleshoot ingestion, storage, networking, Kubernetes and production‑performance issues.
- Produce technical documentation, operating procedures and recovery runbooks.
- Work directly with technical stakeholders and contribute as a senior individual contributor.
- Minimum six years of hands‑on experience in data‑platform infrastructure, distributed storage, data ingestion or a closely related role.
- Production experience with both Docker and Kubernetes is mandatory.
- Strong experience deploying and operating data platforms in on‑premise or hybrid environments.
- Hands‑on production experience with Apache Kafka and distributed ingestion architecture.
- Practical experience deploying or administering Ceph or comparable software‑defined distributed storage.
- Experience with Apache Iceberg and data catalogues such as Apache Polaris .
- Experience using dltHub or a comparable Python‑based data‑ingestion framework.
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, storage, high availability, performance tuning, backup and recovery.
- Experience supporting high‑volume platforms at terabyte or petabyte scale.
- Ability to operate independently and communicate effectively with client and technical stakeholders.
- Willingness to accept a six‑to‑twelve‑month contract and attend client locations when required.
- Data‑platform delivery within regulated sectors such as banking, fintech, healthcare or data centres.
- Experience with Kubernetes Operators, Helm, CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
- Experience integrating ingestion and storage services with Spark, Trino, ClickHouse or dbt.
This position focuses on data ingestion, distributed storage and platform infrastructure. It is not primarily a business‑intelligence, dashboarding, visualisation or data‑analyst role.