Data Platform Engineer, Prague

Do you want to build scalable, cloud-based platform capabilities that power data-driven decision-making across a global organization? Do you thrive in a modern, cloud-first engineering environment where collaboration, automation, and innovation are key? Then this could be the role for you.

About the role and team
As a Data Platform Engineer, you will become part of Unit IT, working in a consultancy-driven setup that delivers high-value services across the USTC Group.

Initially, you will join a dedicated team focused on building a Unified Data Platform for Bunker Holding Group. Here, you will play a key role in establishing the core platform capabilities that enable reliable, secure, and scalable data solutions across systems and business domains.

You will collaborate closely with platform leads, architects, data engineers, and stakeholders across the organization, contributing to a shared goal of building a strong, future-proof data foundation.

Your responsibilities
You will take an active role in designing, building, and operating the technical foundation of the Unified Data Platform.

In this role, you will work hands-on with platform engineering, ensuring that the platform supports reliable, secure, and scalable data capabilities across the organization while enabling a modern and efficient setup. You will collaborate closely with engineers, architects, and stakeholders to establish strong platform patterns and support a robust data foundation.

Examples of your tasks include:

• Building and maintaining scalable platform components and data infrastructure across Databricks and Microsoft Fabric
• Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to ensure consistent, automated, and secure platform provisioning
• Supporting ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving capabilities across the platform
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines and automation to improve deployment quality and operational efficiency
• Collaborating closely with data engineers, architects, and platform leads to implement platform standards and best practices
• Ensuring observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting are implemented across platform services and pipelines

You will also support platform security, access management, and compliance requirements, contribute to the continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, and performance, and help establish reusable templates, modules, and engineering patterns to support self-service capabilities across teams. Additionally, you will participate in troubleshooting and root cause analysis, while continuously staying updated on modern platform engineering, cloud, and AI-enabled development practices.

In practice, this is a role where you combine engineering excellence, automation, and collaboration to help build a modern and scalable enterprise data platform.

Your qualifications
We expect that you are a technically strong and collaborative engineer who enjoys solving complex platform and infrastructure challenges.

You likely bring experience within:

• Modern cloud-based data platforms and platform engineering practices
   
• Hands-on work with Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric
   
• Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
   
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
   
• Cloud-native services and distributed data systems
   
• Data engineering concepts such as ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and Storage
• Monitoring, observability, and operational support practices DevOps and platform engineering principles

You work in a structured and quality-focused way, take ownership of your deliveries, and collaborate effectively across engineering and business stakeholders.

It is an advantage if you also have:

• Experience working with hybrid data platforms
• Experience with Microsoft Azure services and cloud governance
• Experience with streaming, event-driven architectures, or real-time data processing
• Familiarity with DataOps practices
• Experience working in enterprise-scale platform environments

What you can expect
 

• A central role in building a modern, enterprise-grade Unified Data Platform
• High degree of ownership and influence on platform engineering standards and solutions
• Close collaboration across Unit IT and the wider USTC Group
• A modern, cloud-native engineering environment with strong focus on automation and scalability
• Opportunity to work with emerging technologies within data, AI, and platform engineering
• A collaborative setup where internal and external colleagues work as one integrated team

Join the team
We are looking to fill the position as soon as possible, so if you can see yourself thriving in the role described above, we look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible.

We review applications and CVs on an ongoing basis. If you have any questions, please contact Unit Director, Data Kristian Brendstrup at +45 60 37 67 49.

About Unit IT
At Unit IT, you will become part of a family-owned company with a strong culture and a collaborative environment where we share knowledge, support each other, and create value together. Our core values –
WE DARE, WE CARE, WE ARE UNITED – are at the heart of everything we do.

Today, Unit IT has six locations across Denmark, with headquarters in Middelfart and an office in Prague, Czech Republic. Unit IT delivers a wide range of advanced services within infrastructure and private and public cloud solutions, as well as specialist expertise in Cloud, Business Intelligence, Data Platform, and Cyber Security.

Unit IT is part of the Danish, family-owned group United Shipping & Trading Company (USTC). USTC’s portfolio includes activities across oil & energy, shipping, door-to-door logistics, risk management, automotive activities, IT, and sustainable energy, and is represented in 38 countries with more than 4,500 employees.