Lead DevOps Engineer

Company

Aker Systems designs, builds & operates advanced, ultra-secure data infrastructure, delivering data modernisation at enterprise scale to enable AI-driven transformation and seamless sharing of trusted data at scale, predominantly for highly regulated and Central Government clients in the UK.

Aker has proven tech-enabled service offerings - covering the entire client lifecycle through strategic cloud & data capability leadership, secure cloud and data infrastructure modernisation, managed services in client environments and data & platform engineering.

Aker powers AI digital transformation through trusted, enterprise scale data modernisation with proven mission critical, secure, trusted and real-time expertise & solutions. With deeply trusted relationships and influence, innovative technology and excellent delivery track record.

Client Focus

You will be working for national security and defence clients in the Southwest, across both short and long-lived programmes of work, as part of an Agile team of likeminded individuals that thrive on solving real-world problems, keeping the UK safe.

Due to the nature of the work and the customers, you must hold enhanced DV Security Clearance.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will help lead the development and implementation of secure cloud environments hosting data and batch/real-time analytical platforms for National Security and Defence clients, 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.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Build, test and deploy cloud-based infrastructure and applications using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Contribute to the coding of custom test automation frameworks
• Perform script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations
• 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
• Assist in conducting gap analysis, identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications
• Participate in the contingency planning, including reliable backup and restore procedures
• Document functions and changes to new or modified modules and test activities/results
• Mentoring and driving the team to deliver our customer's requirements

Core Experience & Competencies

The successful candidate will have at least 5 years professional experience delivering production grade cloud solutions.

• Experience working in DevSecOps environments and Zero Trust Architecture
• Commercial Experience in deploying and operating infrastructure (network, servers, services) and applications on AWS and other public and private cloud (hybrid) environments
• Developing and operating using open source and commercial software within a cloud-centric environment
• GitHub/GitLab/Atlassian Suite for source control and performing code reviews as part of the build and deployment cycle
• CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies, e.g. Terraform and Ansible
• Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks
• Experience of cloud orchestration and containerisation technologies, such as Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/EKS & AKS
• Knowledge of distributed event streaming technologies, such as Kafka and Flink