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We provide a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions.\nOur vision is to be a world class business, profitable, ambitious, cooperative and considerate, supporting our clients and people through our global business principles of Quality, Unity and Integrity.\nWith over 7,000 employees worldwide, our culture is the thread that connects us. Our strategy and culture are closed connected - defined by shared ambition, global collaboration and a one-team mindset. We believe pioneering work happens when people are empowered to think beyond boundaries, explore new opportunities and grow through diverse experiences. Alongside the right skills and experience, we are looking for people who are innovative, commercially minded, and motivated by the impact of the work they do - ready to share in our ambition and help shape what comes next.\nBecause while individuals can do well, together we achieve something extraordinary.\nThe Role\nThe Data Platform Engineer will ensure Norton Rose Fulbright’s enterprise data platform is a stable,secureand supportable IT service.The platform is built on Azure Databricks, MicrosoftFabricand associated Azure services, supports the firm's strategic data capability across EMEA and EMEAPAC, and is governed through Terraform, Azure DevOps and astandardiseddeployment framework.\nThe role is hands-on andservice-focused. It provides the operational foundation needed to keep the platform reliable, observable,governedand ready for controlled production use. Its emphasis is on platform health, support processes, quality assurance, release readiness, incidentresponseand continual service improvement.\nThe successful candidate will work closely with Architecture, Information Security, Service Delivery, Infrastructure,suppliersand consuming business teams toensure platformchanges are deployed safely through established CI/CD processes, supported byappropriate monitoring, operational controls,documentationand governance standards.\nKey Responsibilities\nProvide L2/L3 operational support for Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and associated Azure services.\nMaintain platform health, availability, resilience, and supportability across the data platform estate.\nPerform routine platform administration, operational checks, and capacity and utilisation monitoring.\nMonitor platform performance, identify optimisation opportunities, and maintain cost awareness.\nTroubleshoot issues across platform, identity, networking, storage, security, and integration layers.\nManage incidents, problems, and service requests in line with established ITSM processes.\nInvestigate and resolve operational issues, ensuring timely restoration of service.\nSupport major incident response activities where platform services are impacted.\nContribute to root cause analysis and implement actions to improve platform stability and reduce issue recurrence.\nCollaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to deliver effective operational support.\nSupport change, release, and environment management activities across the platform estate.\nMaintain release readiness checklists and operational acceptance criteria.\nValidate platform changes prior to production deployment to ensure supportability and risk controls are in place.\nSupport the management of Development, Test, and Production environments.\nEnsure configuration consistency across environments and platform services.\nContribute to CI/CD, version control, and release automation practices for platform assets.\nPromote operational excellence through continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and robust documentation.\nQuality, Monitoring and Governance\nA key part of the role is to define and execute operational QA checks for platform changes,integrationsand supplier-delivered components. The engineer will verify that monitoring, alerting, logging, access controls, runbooks, escalationroutesand support processes are in place before production release. They will support service acceptance and transition activity, assessing readiness against availability, recoverability, supportability,securityand control requirements.\nThe role will implement andmaintainmonitoring, alerting and observability across Fabric, Databricks and Azure services. It will develop service health reporting, operationaldashboardsand exception monitoring, andmaintainrunbooks, known error records, support documentation and knowledge articles. The engineer will contribute to service reviews, operationalassuranceand continual improvement.\nThe role will support governance,securityand compliance byassistingwith access control, role management, privileged access processes, audit evidence, metadata, lineage,auditabilityand policy enforcement. It will work with Risk, Privacy, InformationSecurityand Architecture to ensure platform operationsremainaligned with NRF policies, approved architecturepatternsand applicable control requirements.\nKey Skills and Experience\nExperience supporting cloud-based data platforms in production or near-production environments, ideally including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, or both.\nStrong understanding of Azure services and operational dependencies, including workspaces, capacities, lakehouses, pipelines, clusters, jobs, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, OneLake, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Entra ID, managed identities, secure networking, and private endpoint architectures.\nProven experience in IT Service Management (ITSM), including incident, problem, change, release, and service request management.\nExperience working with ServiceNow or equivalent service management tools.\nKnowledge of production support models, escalation processes, service transition, and knowledge management practices.\nAbility to create and maintain runbooks, operational procedures, technical documentation, and support knowledge articles.\nPractical experience of quality assurance, release governance, and operational readiness activities.\nExperience validating technical changes, defining operational acceptance criteria, and managing Development, Test, and Production environments.\nUnderstanding of test and deployment evidence reviews, rollback planning, and identifying operational support gaps before go-live.\nExperience with monitoring, logging, diagnostics, dashboards, Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD tooling, and automation.\nWorking knowledge of scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools such as PowerShell, Python, and Terraform.\nUnderstanding of data platform governance, security controls, data classification, retention policies, privacy requirements, and audit processes within regulated environments.\n#LI-JC1 #LI-Hybrid\nDiversity, Equity and Inclusion\nTo attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. \nOur new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.\nWe are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. 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