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🕒 July 16

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Octopus Energy

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

⚡ Energy

📡 Telecommunications

Energy • Telecommunications

Octopus Energy is a UK-based energy supplier that offers innovative smart tariffs and renewable energy solutions. Known for its award-winning customer service and commitment to a greener future, Octopus Energy provides great value for the long term with prices historically cheaper than any other large supplier. As one of Europe's leading investors in renewable energy generation, the company is highly trusted, holding a five-star customer service rating. Octopus Energy offers a variety of tariffs tailored for smart meters, solar energy, and electric vehicles, emphasizing cost savings and environmental benefits. Octopus Energy has also expanded internationally with operations in several countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and the USA.

📋 Description

• Contribute to building and improving platform services, writing code, reviewing changes, and supporting deployments. • Work alongside senior engineers to design and implement solutions that improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience. • Help maintain and operate core systems such as CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and monitoring. • Participate in incident response and retrospectives, contributing to learning and improvement. • Collaborate with other engineers to understand needs and translate them into practical platform solutions. • Take ownership of tasks and smaller projects, while developing towards owning larger areas of the platform.

🎯 Requirements

• Solid communication skills and a collaborative approach. • Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider. • Familiarity with security best practices and automation tools. • Experience contributing to the operation of production systems, ideally in a distributed or cloud environment. • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (we use Amazon EKS in production). • Python or other scripting languages. • Datadog or similar monitoring/logging tools. • Messaging queues or event-driven systems (we use RabbitMQ). • Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools. • Networking basics. • PostgreSQL or another relational database. • Linux system administration basics.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees & their family. • Paid time off — 20 days of paid vacation and 8 paid sick days annually. • 401(k) plan with employer match. • Parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible. • Pre-tax commuter benefits. • Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance. • Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business. • Your development is important - support with development including internal and external courses.