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We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.\nIn 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories. We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.\nDue to the nature of the project, UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required. \nWe are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable and reliable data platform capabilities across client delivery projects in the public sector and utilities.\nYou will work closely with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, DevOps Engineers and client stakeholders to develop and maintain cloud-native data platforms supporting batch, real-time streaming, analytical and operational workloads.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role focused on building reliable platform services, automating infrastructure and deployments, supporting production environments and contributing to technical design decisions.\nStrong experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems and real-time streaming technologies is highly desirable.\nKey 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platform services and investigate failures, performance issues and operational problems.\nParticipate in incident investigation and root cause analysis.\nSupport platform performance, scalability, resilience and availability improvements.\nContribute to platform security, governance and operational readiness.\nWork closely with Software Engineers, Data Engineers, DevOps and Architects.\nParticipate in technical design discussions, code reviews and engineering standards.\nContribute to continuous improvement of platform engineering practices.\nEssential Technical Skills & Experience\nStrong commercial experience as a Senior Data Platform Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, Platform Engineer, Software Engineer or similar.\nStrong hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native data platforms.\nStrong programming experience using Java and/or Python.\nHands-on experience with real-time streaming and event-driven architectures, including Kafka, Kinesis or equivalent.\nExperience with 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DevOps delivery environments.\nDesirable: Helm, ArgoCD, Airflow, dbt, Bash, Ansible, Packer, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Datadog.\nExperience working within public sector, utilities or other regulated environments is advantageous.\nData Platform Engineering\nAs a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of complex platform engineering activities within your client delivery team.\nYou will:\nBuild and maintain reliable data platform components and services.\nContribute to technical design and implementation decisions.\nDevelop reusable and maintainable platform patterns.\nSupport data ingestion, processing, storage and integration capabilities.\nIdentify platform risks relating to performance, scalability, security and reliability.\nContribute to platform performance tuning and optimisation.\nParticipate in code reviews and promote clean, maintainable engineering practices.\nSupport production troubleshooting and root cause analysis.\nShare knowledge and support less experienced engineers.\nContribute to improving platform automation, reliability and engineering standards.\nCloud, Infrastructure & Automation\nYou will work across modern cloud and infrastructure technologies, including:\nAWS and/or Azure cloud services.\nInfrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent.\nDocker and Kubernetes containerised environments.\nCI/CD using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or equivalent.\nAutomated provisioning and configuration.\nMonitoring, logging, alerting and observability.\nPlatform security and access controls.\nResilience, backup and disaster recovery considerations.\nExperience & Qualifications\nYou should have 5+ years of relevant professional experience across Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering or a similar technical discipline.\nFor a Senior-level appointment, you should demonstrate strong hands-on technical capability, ownership of complex platform engineering 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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.\nIn 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.\nEqual Opportunities\nAker 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. 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