Principal DevOps Engineer - AWS, Azure - Product

Overview

Remote/Home Based, UK

Aker Systems builds and operates secure, high-performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for enterprise clients. We provide secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations and help our clients manage and share data across their organisations.

We value diversity and inclusion. We encourage people of all backgrounds and identities to apply and are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place to do your best work.

Role

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. You will also build automated deployments using configuration management technologies, 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 and at least 10+ years' working experience in a DevOps capacity.

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

• Commercial experience 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 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, 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

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

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment and is committed to 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.

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