AWS Data Platform Engineer - Freelance

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

• 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

Requirements

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;

• 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.

Interested?

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