Systems Engineer


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Recruiter

Ovo Energy

Listed on

28th September 2018

Location

Bristol

Salary/Rate

£Competitive

Salary Notes

£Competitive

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Systems Engineer

Bristol

£Competitive

Where in the world of OVO will I be working?

You will be joining our fast paced and exciting Technology team at OVO HQ in Bristol, reporting to the Enterprise Technology Manager.

 

What will I be doing?

You will be developing and maintaining automations and integrations for internal OVO services, such as the HR/Finance/ERP system (Workday), intranet portal, G Suite and Slack, as well as building new services from scratch. Working closely with key stakeholders such as Internal Comms, HR, Finance and the Tech department, you will help to deliver an unrivalled user experience for all OVO team members.

A key example is onboarding/offboarding OVO staff, which means managing identity and access management (IAM) as well as syncing employee data between OVO’s HR system and directory services (G Suite and Active Directory), the intranet and internal comms platforms etc.

 

Do I have what it takes?

You will be motivated, show great initiative and will have experience in most of the following technologies and methodologies:

- Google Cloud Platform/AWS

- SQL based database systems

- JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Bash

- Experience building web-services on top of complex APIs

- Understanding of Agile methodology

- Experience with system design

Whilst not essential, experience with the following will be very useful in the role:

- System/software architecture and design principles

- Message queue technologies such as Kafka or PubSub

- Familiarity with our tech stack: JIRA, Slack, G Suite, GitHub

 

Why work at OVO?

We work in highly agile environments with continuous releases and give our cross-functional teams the freedom and trust to find and experiment with the best tools for the job, so that problems are solved in the most optimal way.

Our impressive Software Engineering community will be there to support you so you can make your ideas heard. We have:

- Open Source Friday, each quarter we spend time working on different projects - projects suggested by you. We also run a tech blog.

- Tech Time and Tech Fridays: ‘lightning’ talks on interesting tech topics.

- We promote collaboration and knowledge transferring via Slack channels and internal meet-ups. When we share learning from our mistakes it gives us much more time to work on the cool stuff.

- We attend a number of tech conferences (and sponsor a bunch of them too).

 

A handful of our benefits...

- We give you an additional 4% of your salary to buy benefits that suit you; we offer tech for your home, health care, ISA investment, cycle to work, taste & culture cards, additional holiday & more.

- Flexible working hours

- 25 days' holiday & day off on your birthday

- Free breakfast every day & discounted Friska

- Lots of social events

- The opportunity to get involved in teaching kids to code

- Training budget - this includes joining our up/cross-skilling OVO Bootcamp or videos, books & courses from O’REILLY Safari online

- Matched volunteering and matched fundraising

- You’d be working for an accredited Top Employer

We celebrate diversity and value equal opportunity: the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and we decide employment on the basis of merit and potential.

 

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