Principal DevOps Engineer

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.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.A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.Role OverviewAs 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 suiteWork with other engineers, architects and analysts to shape our DevOps productsSupport deployment and operational activities of products into our clients’ environmentsAssist with setup/maintenance of environments for both manual and automated testingAssist in production support through the investigation and resolution of incidentsPerform ongoing routine application maintenance tasksBe the senior technical contact for DevOps related matters and mentor to more junior members of the teamCore CompetenciesThe 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 AzureDeveloping and operating using open-source and commercial software within a cloud-centric environmentStrong IaC skills including Terraform and TerragruntGitHub/GitLab CI/CD experience to design, build and maintain pipelines for building and deploying our applicationsTest Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworksExpert in cloud orchestration and containerisation technologies, i.e. Kubernetes and DockerKnowledge of large-scale databases and distributed technologies, such as RDSKnowledge of distributed event streaming technologies, such as KafkaKnowledge of scripting languages such as Bash and PythonExperience of mentoring and leading people around you and taking point on key decisionsAker Systems AttributesAt 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.BenefitsIn return, we offer:Competitive salary