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Our Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) combines cutting-edge robotics, AI, and IoT within our advanced CFCs (Customer Fulfilment Centres). We've mastered the single pick, transforming online delivery for our global partners. Join us and be part of a team pushing the boundaries of retail technology.\nAbout the Role As a Data Engineer within our Data Engineering Platform team, you will be responsible for building, operating, and enhancing the core infrastructure, services, and data pipelines that power analytics and reporting across two of our key warehouse automation and fulfilment platforms: Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) and Ocado Mobile Robotics Solutions (OMRS). You will work closely across the stack-moving seamlessly between application code, data pipelines, and infrastructure-while driving platform modernisation by tackling technical debt, tuning Airflow orchestration, and optimizing cloud resource usage.\nIn this role, you will play an active part in monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain system health and ensure issues are resolved before they impact our customers. Additionally, you will maintain and improve a live, customer-facing slot-availability application, focusing on high reliability and optimal performance. Working as part of a collaborative, distributed team, you will partner with engineering groups across Ocado Group to deliver scalable, cost-effective data capabilities and secure interfaces for stakeholders.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild, run, and improve data pipelines, backend services, and APIs powering analytics and reporting for OSP and OMRS.\nWrite and evolve Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu) for cloud environments.\nModernise the platform by untangling technical debt and tuning Airflow/Composer (right-sizing pools, setting K8s resource requests, and optimising DAGs).\nImprove platform efficiency and cloud infrastructure costs by identifying wasteful queries, idle resources, and optimising BigQuery usage.\nParticipate in monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain system health and customer trust.\nMaintain and enhance the reliability and performance of a live, customer-facing slot-availability application.\nCollaborate closely with distributed engineering teams and key stakeholders across Ocado Group.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nEssential\nSolid software engineering experience in Python.\nHands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, or similar like Ansible/CloudFormation) on GCP or another major cloud provider.\nStrong grasp of core DevOps practices, including source control workflows, CI/CD, and deployment strategy design.\nComfort working across the stack, moving between application code, pipelines, and infrastructure.\nPragmatic, ownership-minded approach with the ability to tackle ambiguous problems and adapt to shifting priorities.\nFluent written and spoken English with hands-on exposure to Python, TypeScript, Terraform, GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, CI/CD, and PostgreSQL.\nNice to Haves\nExperience with TypeScript/Node.js.\nAdvanced hands-on Airflow experience beyond writing DAGs (e.g., tuning scheduler pools, resource allocation, and diagnosing slow pipelines).\nExposure to dbt, BigQuery, or other cloud data warehouse tooling.\nExperience supporting live, customer-facing production systems, Unix/Linux environments, and core security principles (least privilege, separation of duties).\nThis role description summarises the typical functions of the role. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible responsibilities, tasks, or duties.\nBenefits: What’s in it for you? \nWork and life should fit together, so we offer a range of benefits focusing on well-being, development, and team spirit. The final package will depend on the contract type we agree on.\nStandard benefits: life insurance, private health care [Luxmed], Multisport card, lunch vouchers, company share programs, and assistance for everyday worries and serious health problems.\nLearning opportunities: access to the Learnebly platform and LinkedIn Learning, English classes, and a book library, \nParental support: additional +10 days maternity / +20 days paternity leave, funding for nurseries and kindergartens\nHybrid model: 2 days/week in the office and flexibility to work from almost any location for up to 30 days a year.\nOffice perks: centrally located offices with car and cycling parking, and home office equipment provided.\nCareer growth: a clear career path with opportunities to rotate between projects, teams, domains and roles under the guidance of highly skilled senior colleagues \nHigh engineering culture: unique software engineering culture with a high level of test coverage and agile environment [read about our tech stack and engineeringpractices across Ocado Technology]\n\nSpeaker community: public speaking training and support for preparing presentations at conferences or meetups, including our ownOcado Technology Meetups\nPassions groups: running, cycling and more \nAnnual celebrations: carnival, summer parties, family picnics, or kid’s days.\nAt Ocado Technology, we're always exploring, learning, and implementing new initiatives, and we're eager to share stories, insights, and experiences with you. 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