Lead DevOps Engineer

🕒 September 25

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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myenergi

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

⚡ Energy

🔧 Hardware

💰 $36.9M Venture Round - myenergi on 2023-10

Energy • Hardware

myenergi is a UK-based maker of eco-smart home and business energy hardware and software that helps users maximize self-generated power and reduce grid consumption. The company designs and manufactures products such as the zappi EV charger (including zappi GLO), eddi and eddi+ solar power diverters, libbi modular home battery storage, and harvi energy monitors, all designed to connect to the myenergi app for monitoring and control. myenergi emphasizes integration across a solar + EV + battery ecosystem, OCPP support for charger platform compatibility, and partnerships with installers and wholesalers to deliver residential and commercial installations.

📋 Description

• Lead a small team of DevOps and platform engineers by setting expectations, giving feedback and coaching • Line-manage the Internal IT lead and oversee the IT roadmap, priorities, budget and escalations • Prioritise, scope and size DevOps work across reliability, security and cost • Own the on-call rota and incident process; lead major incidents and fix root causes • Partner with development and firmware teams on hosting and pipeline needs • Communicate roadmap, risks and outcomes; serve as the day-to-day technical contact for AWS and vendors • Own the multi-account AWS estate, including environments, deployments, reliability and upgrades • Evolve the platform in Terraform across networking, EKS and serverless • Improve CI/CD using CircleCI and GitHub Actions; lead cost reviews • Operate Postgres, Redshift, Redis and OpenSearch with clear SLAs and backups • Own the observability platform using ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry, including logs, metrics, traces, synthetics, SLOs and actionable alerting • Own the data platform, including Glue pipelines, Apache Iceberg lakehouse, Redshift and CDC • Serve BI users with traceable datasets and handle data requests with strong privacy practice • Operate platform security controls covering identity, secrets, hardening, vulnerabilities and incident response • Embed security in CI/CD • Keep IT and platform joined up on identity, access, joiner/mover/leaver and certification • Lead adoption of AI coding and operations tooling in DevOps within agreed guardrails and demonstrate measurable improvements • Deliver the platform roadmap under the direction of the Head of Software and Cybersecurity • Act as the technical escalation point for the platform

🎯 Requirements

• Proven senior or lead DevOps engineer experience on AWS, including line-managing or leading others • Strong Terraform and CI/CD experience, ideally CircleCI or GitHub Actions • Production experience running Kubernetes (EKS) and serverless workloads • Hands-on observability with OpenTelemetry and a modern stack, including SLOs and alert tuning • Solid Postgres administration experience • Experience operating data pipelines or a cloud data warehouse • Daily hands-on use of AI coding assistants and agents, with a considered view on using them safely • Good understanding of cloud security practice • Willingness to participate in the on-call rota • Excellent communication; comfortable prioritising, working with stakeholders and reporting upwards • Desirable: ClickHouse, Redshift or Apache Iceberg; AWS Glue or Spark • Desirable: delivering the technical side of Cyber Essentials Plus or ISO 27001 • Desirable: experience overseeing or working closely with an internal IT function • Desirable: deeper networking including VPC design, PrivateLink and IPSec • Desirable: Bash and Python • Desirable: Node.js/TypeScript familiarity • Hands-on, calm, methodical, data-driven, inquisitive and collaborative approach

🏖️ Benefits

• Free on-site EV charging • Private Medical Insurance • Cycle to Work Scheme • 25 days’ holiday (increasing with service) plus Bank Holidays • Mental Health First Aiders across the business • Career development and ongoing support • Employee empowerment and autonomy • Free on-site parking • A positive, purpose-driven working environment • EV salary sacrifice scheme • Birthday leave • Life Assurance – death in service • Long service awards • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay • Life Celebrations – vouchers for birth and marriage • Employee Assistance Programme – a free, 24/7 UK-based counselling helpline

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