Senior Data Platform Engineer
Senior Data Platform Engineer on Ocado Group's Data Engineering Platform team in Kraków (hybrid), building, operating and optimising the cloud infrastructure, services and data pipelines powering analytics for its warehouse automation platforms (OSP and OMRS). Core stack: Python, Airflow/Composer, GCP, Terraform, BigQuery, dbt.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Kraków, Poland
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Airflow/orchestration: modernise platform, tune Airflow/Composer (right-sizing pools, K8s resource requests, optimising DAGs)
- Cost & performance: identify wasteful queries, idle resources and optimise BigQuery usage to reduce cloud infrastructure costs
- Solid software engineering experience in Python
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, or similar like Ansible/CloudFormation) on GCP or another major cloud provider
- Write and evolve Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu) for cloud environments
- Participate in monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain system health
Nice to have
- SQL for improving platform efficiency and optimising BigQuery usage
- Exposure to dbt, BigQuery, or other cloud data warehouse tooling
Full description
Krakow, Poland Senior Data Platform posted 3 d ago
Senior Data Engineer | Data Engineering Platform | Hybrid Working | Krakow We are Ocado Group, and we're bringing world-class automation to online grocery. Our Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) combines cutting-edge robotics, AI, and IoT within our advanced CFCs (Customer Fulfilment Centres).
Skills, with evidence
- Airflow / orchestration Modernise the platform by untangling technical debt and tuning Airflow/Composer (right-sizing pools, setting K8s resource requests, and optimising DAGs). must have
- Cost & performance Improve platform efficiency and cloud infrastructure costs by identifying wasteful queries, idle resources, and optimising BigQuery usage. must have
- Python Solid software engineering experience in Python. must have
- GCP Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, or similar like Ansible/CloudFormation) on GCP or another major cloud provider. must have not practised here
- Terraform Write and evolve Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu) for cloud environments. must have not practised here
- SQL Improve platform efficiency and cloud infrastructure costs by identifying wasteful queries, idle resources, and optimising BigQuery usage.
- Warehousing About the Role As a Data Engineer within our Data Engineering Platform team, you will be responsible for building, operating, and enhancing the core infrastructure, services, and data pipelines that power analytics and reporting across two of our key warehouse automation and fulfilment platforms: Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) and Ocado Mobile Robotics Solutions (OMRS).
- dbt Exposure to dbt, BigQuery, or other cloud data warehouse tooling.
Participate in monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain system health and customer trust. must have
In this role, you will play an active part in monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain system health and ensure issues are resolved before they impact our customers.
Modernise the platform by untangling technical debt and tuning Airflow/Composer (right-sizing pools, setting K8s resource requests, and optimising DAGs). not practised here