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About the Role
The Shared Services Platform team is a horizontal Platform team that builds reusable capabilities for other Kraken teams. Its scope includes Authentication and identity, Event infrastructure, and Shared platform patterns and tooling.
Responsibilities
- Have ownership of a functional team within Platform Engineering, working closely with the Director and Heads of Platform Engineering to define strategic objectives and team direction.
- Own the production stability and reliability of the team’s services, ensuring they are built to scale and operate effectively in production.
- Manage team priorities and deliveries.
- Collaborate regularly and effectively with Platform Engineers in your functional team to deliver the technical implementation of the team’s strategic priorities, working alongside the Product Manager.
- Lead delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines.
- Partner effectively in the wider Platform Engineering team to deliver outcomes.
- Build a strong culture of open communication where teammates can ask questions without fear, promoting a positive and inclusive team environment.
- Live the Kraken culture and values, and be a role model for your team.
- Line-manage a group of Platform engineers.
- Set clear performance expectations and goals for team members.
- Regularly review individual and team performance, offering actionable insights and constructive feedback to support and grow team members.
- Deliver technical improvements such as small features and bug fixes, as well as larger projects with the team.
- Support team delivery through code reviews, technology research and architectural guidance.
- Drive and improve the non-functional elements of production systems owned by your team.
Requirements
- Great experience with AWS, including serverless, managed, and containerised services.
- Record of successfully and consistently delivering critical path projects, on time and at scale.
- Excellent communication, with a focus on doing this asynchronously across multiple timezones and countries.
- Meticulous organisation and planning skills.
- Experience of mentoring and coaching a team to perform at a high-level of quality.
- Experience managing and supporting large-scale internet-facing distributed systems, for millions of customers.
- Knowledge of security best-practices, security and CI/CD tooling, and methodologies.
- Previous experience in leading technical delivery for small, highly-autonomous teams.
- Track-record of effective collaboration with other teams and departments to drive holistic outcomes.
- A proactive, innovative mindset with the ability to drive continuous improvement.
- Previous experience working in a remote-first asynchronous team providing 24x7 support.
- Applicants must have the right to work in the country that they're applying to, at the time of application.
Skills
- AWS
- Serverless
- Managed services
- Containerised services
- Typescript
- Python
- Terraform
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Lambda
- IAM
- EventBridge/SQS/SNS
- DynamoDB
- ECS
- EKS
- Messaging queues
- Event-driven async processing
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Linux
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote-first
- Asynchronous
Experience Level
- Lead
- Management
About the Company
- Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.
- We create the technology that redefines utilities and unlocks a new energy system of the future.
- By optimising renewable generation, building a more intelligent grid, and empowering utilities to deliver an exceptional customer experience, our operating system is transforming the industry worldwide.
- Join us on our mission to improve the lives of ONE BILLION humans within the decade and shape a cleaner, better future for everyone.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. We consider all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.