Lead DevOps Engineer - Cheltenham based

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.

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.