Akersystems
Senior Data Platform Engineer
Salary not disclosed5+ yearsOnsite
- Engineering
- Remote
- Full time
- Today
About the role
Aker Systems is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and reliable data platform capabilities for public sector and utility clients. This hands-on role involves working with cross-functional teams to develop cloud-native platforms that support batch, real-time streaming, and operational workloads. You will focus on automating infrastructure, maintaining production environments, and contributing to technical design decisions.
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.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data platform workloads.
- Use Infrastructure as Code to create repeatable and maintainable environments.
- Monitor platform services and investigate failures, performance issues and operational problems.
- Participate in incident investigation and root cause analysis.
Required skills
- Java
- Python
- SQL
- AWS
- Azure
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- Spark
- Flink
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Distributed systems
- Data modeling
Nice to have
- Helm
- ArgoCD
- Airflow
- dbt
- Bash
- Ansible
- Packer
- Elasticsearch
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience in Data or Software Engineering
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Pension scheme
- Annual training allowance
- Wellbeing allowance
- Virtual GP
- Employee Assistance plan
About the Company
Aker Systems builds and operates ultra-secure, high-performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for large enterprise organizations. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on proprietary technology solutions that drive performance and improve data management for clients.