Exciting opportunity for a Data DevOps Engineer to help build and maintain our cloud-based water analytics platform. This is a hands-on role focused on designing and supporting infrastructure that handles critical data from smart sensors across water and wastewater networks.
You’ll join a collaborative team working on solutions that deliver real-time insights into flow, level, and pollution events, supporting both operational decision-making and regulatory reporting. This role suits someone who enjoys automation, understands cloud-native data services, and is excited to make a real-world environmental impact.
More about the role:
* Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
* Develop and support CI/CD pipelines for data pipelines, services, and applications
* Manage and optimise AWS services: S3, Lambda, ECS, RDS, IoT Core, Glue, CloudWatch
* Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines and ETL workloads for reliability and performance
* Support secure networking, IAM roles, and data access policies across environments
* Work closely with data engineers, software developers, and analytics teams
* Enable continuous improvement of deployment processes and platform observability
* Contribute to platform architecture and performance optimisation
About you:
* Commercial experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering
* Strong experience with AWS services and infrastructure automation
* Proficient with Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and CI/CD practices
* Skilled in Linux systems, networking, and containerised deployments (Docker)
* Experience with scripting (Python, Bash) and automation workflows
* Familiarity with data pipeline tools (e.g. Airflow, dbt, Glue, Kinesis, or Kafka)
* Understanding of observability: logging, alerting, and metrics (CloudWatch, Grafana, etc.)
Nice to Have:
* Background in IoT, utilities, or environmental data platforms
* Experience with LPWAN technologies (e.g. LoRaWAN, NB-IoT)
* Knowledge of time-series data handling and visualisation tools
* Awareness of UK water industry compliance (e.g. MCERTS, Environment Act 2021)
What we can offer you:
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay and leave
* Company pension
* Life assurance scheme (x4 salary)
* Medicash Plan (includes cash payments towards dental, medical, therapeutic treatments) with the option to add up to 4 dependants
* Refer a friend scheme
* Employee assistance programme (access to GP appointments and mental health support)
* Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
* Training and career progression opportunities
About us:
Detectronic is a UK specialist in Wastewater Network monitoring, providing the most cost effective and technologically advanced flow and level monitoring systems in use today, enabling customers across the water sector to prevent pollutions through the provision of asset intelligence. Detectronic designs and manufactures its own range of patented products and provides data management services through its dedicated data centre.
Detectronic is an Adler & Allan group company. From its headquarters in Colne, Burnley, Detectronic now serves a significant proportion of the UK’s water industry and has thousands of asset installations at various stages within the asset lifecycle across the UK. The businesses reach continues to expand, and the senior leadership team have exciting growth plans for domestic and international markets.
At Adler and Allan Group, we're not just a company – we're environmental champions committed to protecting our planet while helping businesses thrive. We're a diverse, dynamic team dedicated to providing top-tier environmental, energy and water infrastructure services across the UK. Our mission is clear: safeguarding the environment, minimising operational disruptions, and supporting sustainability goals for our valued clients.
Adler and Allan are committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We proudly embrace equal opportunities for all applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. If you require any support with your application, whatever the circumstance, please let us know.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
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