Remote Senior Data Platform Engineer | AWS, Snowflake & Kafka

Lifted (an Upwork Company); United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 91,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted (an Upwork Company) seeks a hands-on Senior Data Platform Engineer to drive modernization and migration of a large-scale data platform onto AWS, Snowflake, and Kafka. You will own infrastructure changes and collaborate across data, platform, and consuming teams.

Based in an eligible EMEA country, you will work remotely for 45 hours per week in US CST hours, supporting development, staging, and production environments with a strong focus on reliability and security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of senior data-platform engineering, with a platform/DevOps focus.
• Strong Python, Bash, and SQL skills.
• Production experience with Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, and AWS.
• Experience operating or migrating production systems across development, staging, and production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident response, testing, documentation, and cross-team communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Migrate data-platform infrastructure and workloads from legacy environments to modern AWS-based infrastructure.
• Support connectivity, deployment, and operational prerequisites for workloads moving to AWS us-east-2.
• Enable secure and governed access to data for platform consumers and downstream systems.
• Modernize data-platform architecture, tooling, orchestration, storage, and operational practices.
• Operate and migrate Snowflake, Confluent/Kafka, AWS, and related data-platform infrastructure across development, stage, and production environments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in incident response, testing, documentation, and runbook creation.
• Deliver repeatable and auditable infrastructure changes using Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code practices, GitLab, monitoring, and documented change processes.
• Coordinate migration work and technical dependencies across platform, data, and consuming teams.

Skills

Python

Bash

SQL

Snowflake

Confluent/Kafka

AWS

Data platform engineering

DevOps

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Monitoring tooling

Job description

Lifted (an Upwork Company) seeks a hands-on Senior Data Platform Engineer to drive modernization and migration of a large-scale data platform onto AWS, Snowflake, and Kafka. You will own infrastructure changes and collaborate across data, platform, and consuming teams.

Based in an eligible EMEA country, you will work remotely for 45 hours per week in US CST hours, supporting development, staging, and production environments with a strong focus on reliability and security.