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Platform Engineer at Kaluza

Platform Engineer

Kaluza · BST, GB

2 weeks ago

Platform Engineer

Kaluza · BST, GB

16 days ago
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About the Role

Kaluza is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to evolve and elevate our internal developer platform, empowering software teams. This role involves taking ownership of technical decisions, driving best practices, eliminating infrastructure toil, reinforcing security, and optimizing cloud operations.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build a scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly platform.
  • Drive self-service tooling and abstractions to hide platform complexity.
  • Lead the use of Terraform, Helm, and Crossplane to automate provisioning.
  • Champion GitOps best practices across all cloud infrastructure.
  • Establish robust monitoring, logging, and tracing foundations.
  • Embed automated security controls and ensure compliance.
  • Participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota.
  • Mentor engineers in the team.
  • Foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders.
  • Coordinate technical upgrades.
  • Hold service providers accountable.

Requirements

  • Strong experience designing, building, and operating production applications at scale.
  • Excellent technical leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Passion for mentoring others.
  • Deep expertise with cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, or Azure.
  • Hands-on experience architecting, managing, and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters.
  • A deep understanding of distributed systems and resiliency patterns.
  • Proven expertise with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps patterns, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.
  • Existing right to work in the UK.

Skills

  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • Crossplane
  • GitOps
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Monitoring
  • Logging
  • Tracing

Location

  • London
  • Bristol

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior level

Salary/Compensations

  • £56,000 - £84,000

Benefits

  • Pension Scheme
  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
  • Life Assurance
  • Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
  • Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
  • Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
  • 5% Flex Fund
  • 26 days holiday
  • Flexible Bank Holidays
  • Progressive Leave Policy
  • Personal Learning Budget
  • Home Office Budget

About the Company

  • Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination.
  • We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.
  • Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids.
  • By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.
  • With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

Equal Opportunity

  • We want the best people
  • We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
  • We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.
  • We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.