Engineer, Linux System/DevOps (Remote in Quebec or Ontario)

ABOUT POWER FACTORS

Power Factors develops software that accelerates the global energy transition by empowering all renewable energy stakeholders to collaborate, automate critical workflows, and make the best decisions. Power Factors fights climate change with code. 

Power Factors has incorporated its four flagship solutions Drive, Greenbyte, Unity and BluePoint to build an integrated suite of open and smart apps. These apps are purpose built for asset management, field service optimization, and performance optimization. Leveraging the domain expertise and machine learning-based advanced analytics within these apps, customers can maximize the value of their renewable assets to stay competitive.

Power Factors’ renewable energy software platform is one of the most extensive and widely deployed solutions in the market with nearly 280 GW of wind, solar, hydro, and energy storage assets managed worldwide.

Learn more at powerfactors.com.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our team ensures that reliability and performance of both internal and externally-visible systems matches users' needs, while facilitating a fast rate of improvement. We use a mix of open source, SaaS and internally developed tools to manage and support our services life cycle (deploy, configure, upgrade, monitor, optimize).

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Maintain live services by monitoring performance indicators such as availability, throughput and latency
• Grow systems by advocating for changes that enhance reliability, performance and serviceability

• Work closely with development team members to design and deploy new services using various deployment environments including containers and packages, on both cloud and on-prem. 
• Perform and automate deployment, maintenance and upgrades across a fleet of servers and devices
• You will be working with technologies like Cassandra, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis,  SaltStack, Ansible, Kafka, MQTT, LAMP, Git, GCE, GKE, AWS, Kubernetes operations, and more 
• Work with the development teams on the CI/CD processes

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

We believe you enjoy working in a purpose-driven organization and that you thrive in an environment where you need to find creative solutions to challenging problems in a fast-changing context. This also means that you are effective at managing multiple tasks of varying complexities, and are driven by continuous learning and growth. Specifically, we are looking for someone with the following toolbox:

• 7+ years of experience with Linux, using the GNU/Linux command line, scripting, Linux tools and services 
• Strong scripting skills (Bash) 
• University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar disciplines
• Good understanding of IP networking, its components (routers, switches) and extensive hands-on experience with relevant Linux services such as DHCP, DNS, Routing, NAT, Firewalling, Web Servers, Forward and Reverse Proxying
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes 
• Experience with virtualization technologies (KVM)
• Experience with monitoring tools (zabbix, prometheus, datadog, or others) 
• Some experience with DB administration
  
• Some experience in one or more of the following: Java, Go, Python
  
• Familiarity with storage technologies such as RAID, LVM, SAN etc. is a plus
  
• Experience with cloud environments is a plus (AWS, GCP)
  
• A good team player, eager to distribute knowledge, able to work with minimal supervision 

We see it as an extra plus if:

• You have professional certifications  such as LFCA, LFCE, RHCSA, RHCE 
  
• You have experience with RedHat based Linux Distributions (RHEL, CentOS, ALMA, ROCKY) 
• You have experience with modern SRE practices 
• You have experience working in a fully remote team and be able to embrace the remote first way of work, its advantages, limitations and responsibilities. 
  
• You like to learn how things work and troubleshooting issues to their root cause 
• You see and appreciate the value of documenting your solutions for others to use 
• You prefer uniformity and repeatability over quick "clever" hacks 
• You want to help us improve our systems and processes and also contribute to other teams and the product 
• You don't like bias towards good and evil tech, but have sound technical arguments for your opinions 
• You sometimes wonder about the nature of elegant solutions, i.e. the compromise between readability, extensibility, resilience, simplicity and time 

LIFE @ POWER FACTORS

We are an agile software development company – big enough to make an impact, but small enough to move quickly and execute in a growing industry, taking advantage of rapidly evolving technologies. We are a collective of bold and ingenious talents driven by results. Our team is made up of hard-working, fun-loving people who are passionate about making the world a better place. We seek fierce and humble people to help us achieve our ambitious plan.

WHY JOIN US

• A humble cause with a clear purpose – you will help us fight climate change with every day at work. We aim to be environmentally conscious in all aspects of our operations.
• Work with passionate experts and top-talents in your field – we are proud of our highly skilled crowd and the savviness each of us brings to the team.
• Friendly and uplifting atmosphere – we believe kindness and respectfulness is core for our culture. A friendly smile or a helping hand is never far away.
• Flexible hours and workplace – it is the result that counts, not when or where. Our hybrid/remote work setup allows everyone to set themselves up for success and create a more sustainable work-life balance.
• All the benefits you expect (and more) – besides the basic benefits (adopted to local needs and norms), you will enjoy perks such as 8h of paid volunteering per year and participation in our Corporate Bonus Program (to name a few).

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Power Factors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to engaging a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.