Lead Platform Engineer
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Job description
Lead Platform Engineer at KrakenFlex responsible for managing a team of 5-8 Platform Engineers and building and scaling Kraken's AWS cloud foundation for grid flexibility and customer management products.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- 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
What we're looking for
- Great experience with AWS, comfortable with 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
Nice to have
- 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
- Familiarity with Typescript, python, or similar programming languages
- Familiarity with Terraform, or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool
- Familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda, IAM, EventBridge/SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS
- Familiarity with messaging queues, event-driven async processing or similar technologies
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Linux
Your team
Platform Engineering
Functional team within Platform Engineering building and scaling Kraken's AWS cloud foundation
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About Kraken
Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!
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.
Mission
Improve the lives of ONE BILLION humans within the decade and shape a cleaner, better future for everyone
Key facts
- energy technology
- KrakenFlex aims to be the leading global provider of solutions that enable customers to release £30bn of value per annum from distributed energy resources (DERs)
- Building a Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription business with a global addressable market of £2.4 billion per annum
- Digitally connecting hundreds of thousands of DERs with energy markets
- KrakenFlex is a recognised thought leader and innovator in the industry
- Uses a mixture of serverless and containerised technologies in AWS
What they value
- Open communication
- Positive and inclusive team environment
- Genuine, honest, empathetic people