Senior Data Platform Engineer — Secure Cloud & Real-Time Data

Aker Systems Limited; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank holidays

Medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Annual training allowance

Wellbeing allowance

Virtual GP

Employee Assistance plan

Job summary

Aker Systems Limited is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable data platforms for public sector and utilities projects in the UK. You will work with Data, Software and DevOps teams to deliver cloud-native platforms supporting batch, real-time streaming, analytics and operational workloads.

The role emphasises hands-on engineering, automation, production support and participation in design decisions to improve platform reliability and security.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native data platforms.
• Strong programming experience in Java and/or Python.
• Experience with real-time streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis).
• Proven ability to implement CI/CD and IaC with Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure data platform services.
• Develop platform capabilities for batch and real-time workloads.
• Collaborate with engineers and client stakeholders to deliver solutions.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Ensure data integrity, security and governance across platforms.
• Provide incident response and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Cloud-native data platforms

Java or Python

Kafka / Kinesis

AWS or Azure

Docker / Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

SQL / Data modeling

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub/GitLab

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Job description

Aker Systems Limited is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable data platforms for public sector and utilities projects in the UK. You will work with Data, Software and DevOps teams to deliver cloud-native platforms supporting batch, real-time streaming, analytics and operational workloads.

The role emphasises hands-on engineering, automation, production support and participation in design decisions to improve platform reliability and security.