Event Driven Software Engineer

Event Driven SME Software Engineer Contract: Inside IR35Location: Sheffield - 2-3 days per week We''re looking for an experienced Event Driven SME Software Engineer to join a greenfield project building a large-scale, high-throughput platform processing billions of cloud telemetry and log events every day. You''ll be hands-on with the design and engineering of event-driven data ingestion and streaming capabilities, helping shape the architecture, engineering standards and testing strategy across the platform. Key Responsibilities Build high-volume, event-driven data ingestion pipelines across multiple Cloud Service Providers. Design and engineer streaming solutions using Kafka and Flink, with Java-based services and jobs. Deploy and operate cloud-based services with a focus on scalability, resilience, security and observability. Contribute to technical architecture covering event schemas, partitioning, ordering, state, replay, retention and failure handling. Optimise solutions for performance and cost at significant scale. Establish mature automated testing across unit, integration, contract, end-to-end and performance testing. Work with cloud-native data collection approaches across AWS, Azure and GCP. Contribute to CI/CD, infrastructure automation and operational best practices. Essential Experience Proven experience delivering large-scale event-driven systems in production. Strong hands-on Kafka experience, including partitioning, consumer groups, ordering, schema ..... full job details .....