2 days ago
London, United Kingdom or Bristol, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the high-level design, technical strategy, and long-term roadmap for release ecosystems and centralized developer tooling.
- Build and scale systems that reliably move software from source to production across Kaluza engineering domains.
- Drive automated deployment, release, testing, Site Reliability Engineering, and AI tooling practices to improve delivery speed and safety.
- Define and enforce company-wide DevOps standards, frameworks, and DORA metrics for productivity, compliance, and auditability.
- Own the strategy for deployment platforms and infrastructure-as-code tooling across secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS environments.
- Mentor and upskill engineers in automated delivery, developer experience, release engineering, and AI enablement.
- Provide technical leadership through strategic audits and designs while building proofs of concept for critical release infrastructure.
Requirements
- Deep experience architecting, scaling, and maintaining enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks, release pipelines, and internal developer platforms in cloud-native environments.
- Comprehensive mastery of DevOps practices, SDLC automation, and practical use of DORA metrics.
- Proven record of mentoring senior engineers, setting technical strategy, and building consensus across multidisciplinary engineering domains.
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise administration and GitHubAsCode is beneficial.
- Strong developer-centric and data-driven approach to improving developer experience and eliminating toil.
- Preferred experience integrating LLMs into production applications or developer workflows using APIs or open-source models, including prompt engineering, context management, and evaluation.
- Preferred experience introducing AI-assisted developer tooling such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude and upskilling colleagues.
- Enterprise release strategy or governance experience, ideally in energy technology, smart-device orchestration, billing SaaS, or high-throughput IoT platforms.
Benefits
- Permanent contract in Bristol or London with a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the office.
- 26 days’ holiday and 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents with no qualifying service period.
- Private medical insurance with virtual GP, life assurance, pension scheme, free mortgage advice, and eye tests.
- Discretionary bonus and a Flex Fund of 5% of salary for selected benefits.
- Retail discounts through Perks at Work, a personal learning budget, home office budget, and access to the Furthr climate action app.
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About Kaluza
Kaluza builds an energy software platform for utilities and suppliers to run billing, smart EV charging, and real-time demand response across homes, devices, markets and grids. It sells its platform and services to energy companies and OEM partners; customers include OVO, AGL and ENGIE, with collaborations with Volvo and Volkswagen. Headquartered in London and B Corp‑certified, Kaluza operates across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including a joint venture with Mitsubishi in Japan.