DevOps Engineer - VCharge

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VCharge is the centrepiece of OVO’s ambition in becoming the world leader in distributed energy technology. It is an intelligent control layer running on top of the already existing energy infrastructure, giving both the market players as well the end consumers a fast forward ticket to the distributed energy future. VCharge will be the nervous system of the OVO’s energy IoT landscape sitting between grid operators and end customers, and connecting energy suppliers, energy IoT, VPP.

Join a team of top notch tech talent in their quest to shape the energy ecosystem of the future. You will be working shoulder to shoulder with people from Facebook, Amazon, Manor Racing, Goldman Sachs, to name but a few.

What's it like to work at OVO?

This is a varied role where you’ll be exposed to the full technology stack, with assignments spanning deployment & infrastructure automation, SRE (site reliability engineering), performance engineering, release engineering and monitoring distributed systems, all with close collaboration with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Engineer tools that improve production & deployment capabilities for all teams; solutions that provide scalable foundations to building high-performing services

Work on defined assignments directly with teams that aim to give their operations a boost, leaving documentation and skills in place when you leave

Contribute to on-call support as an escalation point, providing guidance & coaching to teams enabling a ‘you build it, you run it’ model

Align with the rest of Production Operations in driving operational excellence & best practices around service performance, deployment, monitoring and availability

Ideal Experience

Strong background in Linux systems

Extensive software engineering and system design experience

SRE knowledge and skills

Distributed systems and data streaming architecture

AWS / GCP experience at scale

CD/CI tooling & continuous delivery best practices

Network & Security knowledge

Kubernetes and container orchestration

Experience in scripting languages and automation practices

Demonstrable experience across DevOps skillsets in agile and XP environments

Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

Whilst experience is important, ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude; we see Production Engineering as a mindset

Additional skills

Ability to articulate improvements within software engineering for operational benefit

An inquisitive and curious approach, with confidence to tackle difficult problems

Rapid adoptee of merit-proven new approaches & technologies

Problem solver / structured thinker

Patient and tenacious

Always happy to help and a natural sharer of knowledge

Benefits

Sunday Times' top 20 list of the best companies to work for

The opportunity to get involved with conferences, meet-ups, hackathons, tech talks and teaching kids to code

A clearly defined career path

Open plan office in Notting Hill

Free breakfast every day and lunch on Fridays

Lots of social events

Training budget

Matched volunteering and matched fundraising

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