Site Reliability Engineer (12 month fixed term contract)

Job title: Site Reliability Engineer (12 month fixed term contract)

Location: London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Lisbon (Including Hybrid)

Part time available: Yes up to 80%

Salary: £60,000 - £88,000

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Kaluza wants to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach, by building the platform that will accelerate a sustainable, affordable and resilient energy transition. It’s a huge challenge, but often the toughest problems are the most rewarding to solve.

Since launching in 2019, Kaluza’s technology has been empowering some of the biggest energy suppliers to better serve millions of customers.

From revolutionising billing to smart electric vehicle charging, our real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing cost to serve and boosting engagement. And most importantly, they enable suppliers' customers to drive decarbonisation with smart, low carbon technologies.

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working? 

You'll be joining the Kaluza Technology community. We’re a large team of both data-led and product focused Software and Production Engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale. As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and by ensuring best practices across the board of the community.

You’ll be working on the Kaluza’s Energy Retail platform. This is a SaaS technology platform that aims to revolutionise the operating platforms for energy retailers globally. This platform has been built with scale and technical quality in mind and is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza’s customers. 

As a SRE  you’ll join one of our central teams responsible for our shared infrastructure and our reliability foundations.

What will I be doing?

• Ensuring our platform is reliable and secure and ready to scale for the future

• Advocate for site reliability practices in our product teams

• Ensure our observability is taking an holistic view of our platform

• Developing best practices, tools, and libraries to reduce toils and increase alignment in product teams

• Enable product teams to meet their reliability and scalability targets

Is this the job for me?

Ideally you’ll have/be

• A strong background in software engineering; we don’t mind what language!

• Extensive system design experience

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering

• Experience with cloud computing (AWS/GCP) 

• Cloud networking & Security knowledge

• Interest in distributed systems and event-driven architecture

• An inquisitive and curious approach, with confidence to tackle challenging problems

• Rapid adoptee of merit-proven new processes & technologies

• Problem solver / structured thinker

• Always happy to help and a natural sharer of knowledge.

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Our values are not words on a wall — they are at the heart of our culture. They are how we make decisions and how we treat each other. They are concrete and clear, and reflect what we as people, and as a business, really care about.

Kaluza’s vision is to power a world where net-zero is within everyone’s reach. Would you be interested in joining us to help achieve this?

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme

• Kaluza Share 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 to spend on the benefits you want most

• 26 days holiday

• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like

• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 

• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets

• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle

• And more…

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

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.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.