NextWave Consulting

Senior Kubernetes Engineer – Data Platform

NextWave Consulting  •  London, GB (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Location: UK
Department: Data Operations
Reporting to: Head of Platform Engineering
We are hiring a Senior Kubernetes Engineer to help design and scale a Kubernetes‑native data platform powering large‑scale data ingestion, transformation, and analytics workloads. This role sits at the intersection of cloud‑native platform engineering and big‑data systems, focused on enabling reliable, observable, and cost‑efficient compute at scale.
You’ll work on core platform capabilities—from Kubernetes operators and data processing patterns to storage, metadata, and observability—supporting teams building modern data products.This is a hands‑on engineering role with strong ownership, technical influence, and real production impact.
What You’ll Do
  • Design and build Kubernetes‑centric platform services for distributed data workloads
  • Implement scalable data processing patterns integrated with object storage (S3)
  • Develop and optimise data ingestion and transformation pipelines (Spark‑based)
  • Build and maintain metadata, lineage, and governance capabilities
  • Improve platform observability using metrics, logs, and tracing
  • Collaborate with platform, data engineering, and infrastructure teams
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to best practices across Kubernetes and data platforms
What We’re Looking For
  • Strong, hands‑on experience with Kubernetes (including operators, CRDs, or advanced workloads)
  • Background in data platforms or big‑data ecosystems
  • Experience with Spark and modern table formats ( Delta / Iceberg)
  • Deep understanding of S3‑based storage patterns
  • Familiarity with metadata, data governance, or lineage tooling
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar
  • Ability to operate in production environments with reliability and scale in mind
Nice to Have
  • Hadoop ecosystem exposure
  • Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Infrastructure‑as‑Code experience
  • Kubernetes or cloud certifications
NextWave Consulting

About NextWave Consulting

NextWave is an award-winning Consultancy. Financial Services firms trust us to provide market-leading Strategy, Specialist transformation and AI-enabled automation Solutions. We help our clients to rapidly deliver business outcomes.

NextWave supports many of the world's leading Financial Institutions, including global banks, insurance firms, asset and wealth managers, private banking and private equity houses.

We have specialist transformation teams across Front Office, Risk, Data, Finance, Compliance and Operations, plus solution consulting & engineering teams on sector-leading platforms & fintech technologies supported by our own methodologies and accelerators.

NextWave deploys consultant teams seamlessly across our international locations in London, New York, Amsterdam, Zurich, Milan, and India.

We are giving something back through the unique NextWave 'One4One' social impact programme which provides a ‘life changing’ career start internship for youngsters from diverse backgrounds in tandem with each of our client engagements.

Our success is built on collaboration, innovation, and constant learning and development in all that we do.

For more information about NextWave and how we can help accelerate your transformation agenda and value creation, please visit: www.nxwave.com or get in touch: charles.rustin@nxwave.co.uk.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
2019
Website
nxwave.com
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