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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Aker Systems
Remote, GBR
Senior · 5+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 2 weeks ago

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Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test and deploy data platform services and components.
  • Build and maintain platform capabilities supporting batch and real-time data workloads.
  • Develop and operate distributed data services using Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Flink or equivalent technologies.
  • Build and maintain cloud-native data platform capabilities using AWS and/or Azure.
  • Support data ingestion, processing, storage and integration across multiple systems.
  • Develop and maintain data models, schemas and platform data structures.
  • Support schema evolution, data quality and data integrity across distributed platforms.
  • Integrate data platforms with relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Develop automated testing and validation for platform services and data processing components.
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data platform workloads.
  • Use Infrastructure as Code to create repeatable and maintainable environments.
  • Support Docker and Kubernetes-based platform environments.
  • Monitor platform services and investigate failures, performance issues and operational problems.
  • Participate in incident investigation and root cause analysis.
  • Support platform performance, scalability, resilience and availability improvements.
  • Contribute to platform security, governance and operational readiness.
  • Work closely with Software Engineers, Data Engineers, DevOps and Architects.
  • Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews and engineering standards.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of platform engineering practices.
  • Essential Technical Skills & Experience
  • Strong commercial experience as a Senior Data Platform Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, Platform Engineer, Software Engineer or similar.
  • Strong hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native data platforms.
  • Strong programming experience using Java and/or Python.
  • Hands-on experience with real-time streaming and event-driven architectures, including Kafka, Kinesis or equivalent.
  • Experience with distributed data processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka Streams or equivalent.
  • Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
  • Experience with cloud services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, RDS, Athena, EC2 or Azure equivalents.
  • Strong understanding of data platform architecture, data pipelines and distributed processing.
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Strong SQL skills and understanding of data modelling and schema design.
  • Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
  • Experience using Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code technologies.
  • Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
  • Experience using GitHub/GitLab and modern source control practices.
  • Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability for platform services.
  • Experience supporting production systems and resolving technical and operational issues.
  • Understanding of platform security, resilience, scalability and availability.
  • Experience working within Agile and/or DevOps delivery environments.
  • Desirable: Helm, ArgoCD, Airflow, dbt, Bash, Ansible, Packer, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Datadog.
  • Experience working within public sector, utilities or other regulated environments is advantageous.
  • Data Platform Engineering
  • As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of complex platform engineering activities within your client delivery team.
  • You will:
  • Build and maintain reliable data platform components and services.
  • Contribute to technical design and implementation decisions.
  • Develop reusable and maintainable platform patterns.
  • Support data ingestion, processing, storage and integration capabilities.
  • Identify platform risks relating to performance, scalability, security and reliability.
  • Contribute to platform performance tuning and optimisation.
  • Participate in code reviews and promote clean, maintainable engineering practices.
  • Support production troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
  • Share knowledge and support less experienced engineers.
  • Contribute to improving platform automation, reliability and engineering standards.
  • Cloud, Infrastructure & Automation
  • You will work across modern cloud and infrastructure technologies, including:
  • AWS and/or Azure cloud services.
  • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent.
  • Docker and Kubernetes containerised environments.
  • CI/CD using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or equivalent.
  • Automated provisioning and configuration.
  • Monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.
  • Platform security and access controls.
  • Resilience, backup and disaster recovery considerations.
  • Experience & Qualifications
  • You should have 5+ years of relevant professional experience across Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering or a similar technical discipline.
  • For a Senior-level appointment, you should demonstrate strong hands-on technical capability, ownership of complex platform engineering activities and the ability to work independently within client delivery environments.
  • About You
  • You are a hands-on Data Platform Engineer who enjoys building and operating the infrastructure and services that make modern data platforms work reliably in production.
  • You are comfortable working across cloud platforms, streaming, distributed systems, data processing, Infrastructure as Code and containerisation.
  • You understand that effective data platforms need to be secure, scalable, observable, resilient and maintainable, not simply capable of processing data.
  • You take ownership of your work, enjoy solving complex technical problems and work well with engineers across different disciplines.
  • You are pragmatic, technically curious and focused on delivering reliable platform capabilities that create measurable value for clients.
  • Experience working within public sector, utilities or other complex and regulated environments would be highly advantageous.
  • 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.
  • Equal Opportunities
  • Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing 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.

Qualifications

  • You are a hands-on Data Platform Engineer who enjoys building and operating the infrastructure and services that make modern data platforms work reliably in production.
  • You are comfortable working across cloud platforms, streaming, distributed systems, data processing, Infrastructure as Code and containerisation.
  • You understand that effective data platforms need to be secure, scalable, observable, resilient and maintainable, not simply capable of processing data.
  • You take ownership of your work, enjoy solving complex technical problems and work well with engineers across different disciplines.
  • You are pragmatic, technically curious and focused on delivering reliable platform capabilities that create measurable value for clients.
  • Experience working within public sector, utilities or other complex and regulated environments would be highly advantageous.
  • 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.
  • Equal Opportunities
  • Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing 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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