Overseas Contractor- Data Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 9, 2026. LTM scores B on the Alion truth index.
Hiring- B2B
Location- Croatia, Zagreb
Role Overview
We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer with handson experience in administering supporting and improving enterprise data platforms The role will focus on maintaining reliable data environments enabling development teams to build and operate data pipelines and products and ensuring platforms meet operational security governance and compliance requirements
The ideal candidate is a handson engineer who can independently administer and troubleshoot data platforms while working closely with senior engineers and architects on platform improvements and design decisions The person should be comfortable operating across data engineering infrastructure cloud DevOps security and IT operations rather than focusing exclusively on application development
Key Responsibilities
Administer configure maintain and support enterprise data platform environments
Support the design and implementation of platforms used for data ingestion integration processing storage and delivery
Establish configure and maintain data platform tools and supporting infrastructure
Assist development and project teams in effectively using data platforms following DevOps practices
Support the deployment and operation of data pipelines data products and associated platform services
Monitor platform health performance logs capacity and availability and troubleshoot platformrelated issues
Maintain system documentation technical and operational handbooks configuration documentation and interface descriptions
Integrate platform activities with IT operations processes including Change Management Release Management MonitoringEvent Management Incident Management and Capacity Management
Implement and maintain data security and governance capabilities including encryption masking tokenization access control and data lineage
Support automation of platform provisioning configuration deployment and operational activities
Required Experience Qualifications
Typically 6 8 years of relevant experience in data platform engineering administration infrastructure or related areas
Handson experience administering data hosting processing storage or analytics platforms
Good understanding of software engineering and nonfunctional requirements such as availability scalability performance security and maintainability
Experience with Linuxserver administration platform provisioning configuration patching and maintenance
Experience with operational disciplines including logging monitoring diagnostics metrics performance and capacity management
Working understanding of DevOps CICD Infrastructure as Code and automation principles
Ability to troubleshoot platform and integration issues across infrastructure and application layers
Good communication and documentation skills with the ability to work with development infrastructure security and operations teams
Technical Skills
Candidates should have handson experience in several of the following areas
Data Platforms Processing
Apache Hadoop ecosystem Cloudera or Hortonworks
Apache Spark Scala Impala Hive and HBase
Data formats including Parquet ORC Iceberg and Delta
Data partitioning and distributed dataprocessing concepts
Cloud Analytics Platforms
Microsoft Fabric
Azure Databricks
AWS Glue
AWS Athena
AWS Redshift
Data Governance Security
Apache Atlas
Apache Ranger
Microsoft Purview
Databricks Unity Catalog
Encryption masking tokenization and data lineage concepts
Infrastructure Automation
Red Hat Linux administration
Bash and Python scripting
Ansible
Terraform
Security
TLS and X509 certificates
LDAP
OAuth
Cryptographic APIs and key security concepts
DevOps Source Control
Git
Jenkins
Azure DevOps
CICD concepts and automated deployment practices