Data Platform Engineer

About the role

Norton Rose Fulbright is hiring a Data Platform Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne to keep its enterprise data platform stable, secure and supportable. The platform runs on Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and associated Azure services, covers the EMEA and EMEAPAC regions and is governed through Terraform, Azure DevOps and a standardised deployment framework. The role is hands-on and service-focused, working with Architecture, Information Security, Service Delivery, Infrastructure, suppliers and business teams.

Key responsibilities

• L2/L3 operational support for Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks and Azure services, including incident, problem, change, release and service request handling
• Maintain platform health, availability, resilience and supportability; monitor performance, capacity and costs
• Troubleshoot issues across platform, identity, networking, storage, security and integration layers
• Support major incident response, root cause analysis and release readiness checks
• Manage development, test and production environments and support CI/CD, version control and release automation
• Define operational QA checks, monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks and service acceptance criteria
• Contribute to governance, security and compliance, including access control, audit evidence and metadata

Required profile

• Experience supporting cloud-based data platforms in production or near-production environments, ideally Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure Databricks
• Proven ITSM experience and experience with ServiceNow or equivalent
• Ability to write runbooks, technical documentation and knowledge articles
• Understanding of data platform governance, security controls and audit processes in regulated environments

Required skills

• Azure services: workspaces, lakehouses, pipelines, clusters, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, OneLake, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Entra ID, managed identities, secure networking and private endpoints
• Monitoring, logging, dashboards, Azure DevOps, Git and CI/CD tooling
• Scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools such as PowerShell, Python and Terraform

The employer offers a flexible enabled work model allowing work from the office and remotely, and states it is an equal opportunities employer.