Senior Platform Engineer
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Occupation Type
Programmers and software development professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£54,700
(£28.05 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
At Lunar Energy, we're on a mission to transform the way we power our homes by building an ecosystem of all-electric products, starting with a next-generation home battery system and a cloud PaaS to manage large fleets of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) assets. Comprising a team of visionary entrepreneurs and dedicated technology and industry experts, we're united by our shared vision of deploying and building products to electrify homes that are connected through an integrated software platform.
We are currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our talented team of engineers, dedicated to delivering a more sustainable future. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring end-to-end platform reliability, security, and internal tooling. You will have the opportunity to strongly influence and contribute to the team's future.
Lunar Energy empowers you to explore multiple facets of our technology stack, aligned with your personal interests and abilities. We have a strong tradition of leveraging functional programming and type systems to craft pragmatic and flexible systems that align with business requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
We are currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our talented team of engineers, dedicated to delivering a more sustainable future. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring end-to-end platform reliability, security, and internal tooling. You will have the opportunity to strongly influence and contribute to the team's future.
Lunar Energy empowers you to explore multiple facets of our technology stack, aligned with your personal interests and abilities. We have a strong tradition of leveraging functional programming and type systems to craft pragmatic and flexible systems that align with business requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable, highly available infrastructure and internal tooling solutions using TypeScript and Python in AWS
- Enable fast iteration through implementation and improvement of automation
- Take ownership of ensuring continuous operation of critical systems, including databases and ETL pipelines
- Reason about cloud infrastructure strategy to help ensure that solutions are the best fit for requirements
- Develop and evangelise security best practices, such as automation of a secure software development process
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- A minimum of 5 years' of experience in DevOps, SecOps or Platform Engineering roles.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines
- Experience using infrastructure as code
- Experience managing cloud databases at scale in at least one of: Postgresql, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- Strong understanding of networking and network security
- Proven industry experience in Secops
- Proficiency in one or more scripting programming languages (Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.)
- Experience with serverless technologies
- Experience with Typescript
- Proficiency in application penetration testing, ethical hacking, and vulnerability assessments
- Interest in the IoT and renewable energy industry
- Impact-Driven: Thrive in a small, agile team where your initiative and contributions make a significant impact.
- Curious and Enthusiastic: Eager to embrace new challenges and continuously expand your skill set.
- Self-Starter: Capable of managing your own workload and deadlines while taking personal responsibility for your tasks.
- A competitive salary and stock options package
- 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays
- Private Medical Insurance via BUPA (medical history disregarded)
- A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash
- 5% employer contributions pension matching
- A budget for work-related training of £1,000 per financial year and an allowance of 4 training days
Location: Fully remote within the UK, but you are welcome any time at our office in Spitalfields, London (UK), as often as you like.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, age or social background. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply.