AWS Data Platform Engineer

As an 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

• Build and maintain data infrastructure (e.g. ELT, generic data pipelines, interfaces between data products)

• Translate business needs into well-designed, maintainable data solutions

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

• Implement production-ready solutions (e.g. deployment automation, monitoring, alerting)

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

• Coach junior and medior data engineers

Your qualifications

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;

• Excellent terms of employment (including company car, fuel card, meal vouchers & bonus,...);

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

• 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

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

Interested?

Are you the AWS Data Platform Engineer we are looking for? Don't hesitate to apply!