Lead DevOps Engineer

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.

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 public and private sector 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.

You will:

• 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 to the start our customer's require

Core Competencies

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree or greater. An equivalent of at least 5 plus years of 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 other cloud environments
• Developing and operating using open source and commercial software within a cloud-centric environment
• Server build and administration, Linux and Windows
• GitHub/GitLab 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 and Docker
• Knowledge of large-scale databases and distributed technologies, such as RDS
  Knowledge of distributed event streaming technologies, such as Kafka
• Write/maintain automation script using Bash/Shell or Python scripting languages
• 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 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.