AWS Data Platform Engineer - Freelance

Datashift; Antwerpen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Datashift in Belgium is seeking a Freelance AWS Data Platform Engineer to shape and evolve the AWS data platform. You will own infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and scalability while delivering robust data solutions for client projects.

You will work alongside Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers and Business Consultants to turn business requirements into production-grade platforms. The role emphasizes containerized platforms with Kubernetes and AWS, cost-performance trade-offs, and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building data solutions on AWS.
• Experience implementing data pipelines and containers.
• Terraform or CloudFormation for infra as code.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Networking, security, and IAM in AWS.
• CI/CD pipelines with Git.
• Python code in data engineering contexts.
• Production deployments experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain containerized data platforms with Kubernetes at core.
• Own infra from CI/CD to monitoring, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, and Business Consultants.
• Balance cost, performance, maintainability in design.
• Mentor junior and medior data engineers.

Skills

Python programming

Production deployments

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

dbt

Job description

As a Freelance AWS Data Platform Engineer, you will do much more than build data pipelines. You will help shape and evolve the AWS platform that powers data solutions, taking ownership from infrastructure and CI/CD to monitoring, security, and scalability.

Acting as a Platform Engineer will be a key part of your role, enabling teams to build and operate data products with confidence. Together with Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, and Business Consultants, you will turn business requirements into robust, production-grade solutions that deliver real value to our clients.

Your responsibilities

You build, manage, and continuously improve containerized data platforms, with Kubernetes at their core and AWS providing the underlying cloud infrastructure

You actively contribute to shaping tomorrow’s infrastructure and ensuring its setup can be industrialized in a future-proof and scalable way

You act as a sparring partner to the Data Architect, helping shape the technical direction for building future-proof infrastructure components and continuously evolving the platform in line with industry best practices.

Balance cost, performance, and maintainability when designing new or improving on existing solutions

Stay up to date with developments in data technology and share your knowledge with your colleagues

Coach junior and medior data engineers

Job requirements

Must have

You have at least 4 years of experience

Hands-on experience with implementing data solutions in AWS

You can build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Hands-on experience with networking, security, and access control in AWS

You can set up and maintain deployment automation pipelines and have day-to-day experience with Git (using GitHub, GitLab, or similar)

You get energy from writing and maintaining clean, well-structured Python code

You have contributed to production-grade deployments

Nice to have

Hands-on experience with data modeling (Kimball, Data Vault)

Strong analytical SQL skills

Knowledge of data warehousing best practices

Hands-on experience with dbt

Languages

Fluent in Dutch and English

Our offer

A highly entrepreneurial team;

A no-nonsense working environment with a focus on high quality;

The opportunity to grow together with Datashift in terms of capabilities as well as financial benefits;

The chance to work on projects related to cutting-edge technologies

Fringe benefits including continuous training that builds and extends professional, technical and management skills in all areas;

With our offices in Mechelen, Leuven and Gent you can work from several locations.