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Aker Systems

Principal DevOps Engineer - AWS, Azure - Product

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Lead the development of secure scalable cloud environments in AWS and Azure. Design and deploy infrastructure, automate deployments, and mentor junior team members.
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Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations.  We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track.  The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories.  We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply.  We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.

About Aker Systems

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high-performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as “One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020, winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the Year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories.

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.

Role Overview

As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will help lead the development and implementation of products to create secure and scalable cloud environments in AWS and Azure, leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies and techniques.

This also involves building automated deployments using configuration management technology, deploying new modules, upgrades and fixes to test and production environments.

 You Will:

  • Design, build, test and deploy cloud-based infrastructure and applications using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code directly and as part of our product suite
  • Work with other engineers, architects and analysts to shape our DevOps products
  • Support deployment and operational activities of products into our clients’ environments
  • Assist with setup/maintenance of environments for both manual and automated testing
  • Assist in production support through the investigation and resolution of incidents
  • Perform ongoing routine application maintenance tasks
  • Be the senior technical contact for DevOps related matters and mentor to more junior members of the team

Core Competencies

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree or greater. An equivalent of at least 10+ years' working experience in a DevOps capacity is also required for this position.

You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role:

  • Commercial Experience in deploying and operating infrastructure (network, servers, services) and applications on AWS and Azure
  • Developing and operating using open-source and commercial software within a cloud-centric environment
  • Strong IaC skills including Terraform and Terragrunt
  • GitHub/GitLab CI/CD experience to design, build and maintain pipelines for building and deploying our applications
  • Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks
  • Expert in cloud orchestration and containerisation technologies, i.e. Kubernetes and Docker
  • Knowledge of large-scale databases and distributed technologies, such as RDS
  • Knowledge of distributed event streaming technologies, such as Kafka
  • Knowledge of scripting languages such as Bash and Python
  • Experience of mentoring and leading people around you and taking point on key decisions

Aker Systems Attributes

At Aker we work as a team, we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help out our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.

Benefits

In return, we offer:

  • Competitive salary
  • 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
  • Company Paid Medical Insurance
  • Life Assurance (4x basic salary)
  • Pension scheme
  • Perks at Work
  • Cycle Scheme
  • Tech Scheme
  • Season Ticket Loan
  • Plus, a list of voluntary benefits including:
    • Dental Insurance
    • Critical Illness Cover
    • Virtual GP

Equal Opportunities

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics.

We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.


Aker Systems Attributes

At Aker we work as a team; we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help to solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.

In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan and more.

Equal Opportunities

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
Bash
Docker
Git
Gitlab
Kafka
Kubernetes
Python
Rds
Terraform
Terragrunt

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