Data Engineer

Join the SiXworks Revolution as an Data Engineer! 🌟

Welcome to SiXworks, where innovation thrives and excitement knows no bounds!

Established in 2017, we're not your ordinary company. We're a dynamic team specialising in fail-safe, fail-fast, Agile design that empowers organizations to rapidly refine their requirements and seize IT opportunities.

Are you ready to be part of something extraordinary? We're on the lookout for Data Engineers to join our team and dive headfirst into exciting, game-changing projects!

We are looking to recruit an experienced Data Engineer to join us on fast moving, innovative and influential work that is underway in the Defence and Security Sector.

We are looking for a full-time employee but are open to candidates who wish to work as a contractor.

Flexible Working – 2 days a week in office based in Herefordshire area, induction training to be completed at Farnborough (3 days max).

Essential Skills and Qualities

• Great communicator
• Team player
• Self-starter with drive, keen to work in a small team
• Thirst for new skills
• Either holds or has recently held government security clearance already, or is suitable for and willing to go through the vetting process

Experience (Essential)

• Knowledge of functionalities surrounding Apache NiFi. Development of custom processors and end to end data flow management.
• Programming and scripting languages, e.g. SQL, Python, Linux, Java
• Experience working closely in a team/squad/tribe using agile methodologies (Scrum and/or Kanban,), practicing DevOps and Continuous Integration / Delivery.
• Experience in using Elastic stack products to ingest, manage and visualise data.
• Data modelling and understanding of different data structures (structured and unstructured).
• Experience in using IaC tooling (e.g. Terraform, ARM, Pulumi) to deploy to Cloud environments.

Experience (Nice to have)

• Experience with Hadoop Platform & Ecosystem at Enterprise scale would be nice to have.
• Knowledge in administration of Big Data systems in a production / live environment
• Experience deploying solutions on top of Microsoft Azure. (e.g Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Factory, Azure DataBricks)
• Knowledge of Apache Airflow
• Understanding of Apache Kafka / Event-based architecture and design patterns

Benefits:

• Exciting and interesting work.

• Bonus scheme.

• Casual dress.

• Free hot and cold drinks in our own, modern kitchen/break-out.

• Secure, on-site parking, cafe, restaurant, and gym facilities.

• Company events & social hours.

• Professional Development opportunities.

• Private Healthcare.

• Contributory pension scheme.

• Maternity / Paternity pay.

• Friendly and supportive team.

Our SiXworks team is a fusion of brilliance, featuring senior operational, technical, and business leaders from various industries and the armed forces. We're also powered by a league of extraordinary IT engineers, architects, developers, and project managers. Together, we're an unstoppable force of innovation!

SiXworks’ expertise includes secure-by-design, cloud computing and services, advanced network, platform and infrastructure design, rapid application development, cross-security domain systems, multi-source data platforms, cyber vulnerability mitigation and intelligence systems. SiXworks provides supplier-agnostic, technical and business consultancy to customers, and champions opensource and best of breed technologies.

To date we have worked exclusively in the Defence and Security Sector, providing IT innovation projects and programmes, analysis and output-based consultancy.

*Direct applicants only - no agency submissions*