Remote Senior DevOps Engineer

Description:

• tem is focused on rebuilding the energy transaction system to make it transparent and fair, empowering businesses to buy energy directly from renewable generators.
• The product, RED™, utilizes a proprietary pricing engine to bypass the wholesale market, ensuring affordable bills and fair compensation for businesses.
• Since its launch in 2021, tem has saved UK businesses and generators over £20 million and is backed by top-tier VCs.
• The Senior DevOps Engineer will join the new Platform team to enhance delivery through improved DORA metrics.
• Responsibilities include building tools, optimizing AWS infrastructure, and enhancing the developer experience.
• The role involves contributing to platform initiatives from the first month, proposing solutions by the second month, and shipping improvements by the third month.
• By six months, the engineer is expected to have measurably improved DORA metrics and become a go-to DevOps expert.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have a strong software engineering background with multiple years of experience transitioning to DevOps/Platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS is required, particularly with serverless technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, SQS, IAM, and AWS networking.
• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt is essential.
• CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions, including complex workflow design, is necessary.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash are required, with additional proficiency in Node.js and/or Python being a plus.
• Experience with monitoring and observability using modern tooling is needed.
• A solid understanding of DORA metrics and a proven track record of improving them is required.
• Desirable qualifications include experience building internal developer platforms, knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps practices, service mesh knowledge, security best practices, and experience in startups or scale-ups.

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive salary, currently set at £80,500 or equivalent in local currency, with biannual reviews based on real-time market data.
• Employees receive stock options, providing ownership in the company's mission.
• The role includes 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, with the option to swap public holidays for those that matter most to the employee, and an extra day off for their birthday.
• The company supports remote and flexible working arrangements, with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• Home working and wellbeing budgets are provided, including up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually for remote setup upgrades and up to £150 / €150 monthly for wellbeing support.