Principal DevOps Engineer

Aker Systems is a company focused on providing secure enterprise data platforms and cloud-based data infrastructure. The Principal DevOps Engineer will lead the development and implementation of secure and scalable cloud environments using AWS and Azure, while also mentoring junior team members and overseeing deployment activities.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Bachelor's degree or greater
• At least 10+ years' working experience in a DevOps capacity
• 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