🌍 UK, Hybrid

💰 £65,000 - £80,000 

This role requires a hybrid working pattern onsite once per week in our HQ - Chiswick, London. Please also note we cannot facilitate visa support, now or in the future or offer relocation support. 

Our Perks

Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture. 

Drive your own experience 

• Personalised Learning and Development Budget
• Hybrid working hours – Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can
• Technology – Your choice of Mac or Windows

Empowering you to be your most authentic self 

• 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
• 1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!
• 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
• Religious Celebrations Leave
• Mental Healthcare – Sessions with Unmind
• Enhanced Family Leave

So Energy

Who we are

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

• Clear
• Honest
• Ambitious
• Inquisitive
• Caring
• Sustainable

The Role

Senior DevOps at SO ENERGY

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team at SO Energy, led by our Director of Technology Muhammad Khan 👋. We need a proactive and skilled DevOps Engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about building and maintaining digital products.

As our Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, improving, and supporting the SO Energy platform. You should be adept at leveraging modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and agile methodologies, to deliver consistent value to our customers.

Engineering Team:

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary and multinational team, working with a diverse tech stack that includes tools and technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and various cloud services. This role provides an excellent opportunity to deepen your expertise in DevOps practices and enhance the performance and scalability of our systems.

Join our high-performance engineering team: We are developing a robust, scalable platform using a microservices architecture on Google Cloud. Our tech stack features a combination of cutting-edge technologies, and you will have the chance to innovate and improve our infrastructure continuously.

As a fully empowered team member, you will contribute significantly to building our architecture with a keen focus on quality and detail. You will be involved in collaborative coding sessions with your team and participate in our guilds to refine practices and stay abreast of the latest technologies.

Your contributions will help us maintain a low Total Cost of Ownership while expanding our platform's capabilities. Most of your time will be spent working closely with your colleagues, enhancing our infrastructure, and ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our services.

If you are a team player with a deep understanding of DevOps practices and a passion for continuous improvement, we would love to have you on board.

What you’ll be getting up to:

• Design, build and support the public and private cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, Terraform & Kubernetes
  
• Lead and mentor the DevOps team
  
• Create and drive the DevOps roadmap at So Energy
  
• Ensuring the availability, performance and readiness of our test and production environments to support our release aspirations
  
• Maintain and enhance our monitoring and observability stack, ensuring we can provide a real time view on availability and performance
  
• Work within cross-functional engineering teams to build products and services
  
• Automate wherever possible
  
• Deploy new digital products with cloud first strategy
  
• Balance short-term delivery with building long-term strategic components
  
• Be a force for innovation and change, contributing to the platform roadmap

This role will be a great fit if:

• Experience with cloud native CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions/Argo/GKE
  
• Programming experience in a language such as (Java, C#, Kotlin, Go)
  
• Have experience leading DevOps / cross functional teams
  
• Experience scripting in a language such a Python, Bash, or PowerShell
  
• Experience working with and designing distributed systems
  
• Has worked in an environment with zero downtime deployments
  
• Has led efforts to build reliability and redundancy into platforms
  
• Experience with Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/AKS)
  
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform/CloudFormation
  
• Experience with one or more of AWS, GCP, Azure
  
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, ports, proxies, etc)
  
• Experience with security in the context of cloud or networking
  
• Experience working in a software development lifecycle
  
• An understanding of DevOps ‘philosophy’

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!

Want to tailor your application? 

Hiring Process

1. TA Screen (Rebecca)
2. HM Stakeholder Interview (JL) (30-Min screen)
3. DevOps Coding Test (JL, Sam/Christian + Rob)
4. Final stage leadership + Cultural (MK + Rhianna)

Support – If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Our Values

We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Clear - The energy industry can be pretty complex so we strive to provide clear communication to our customers and colleagues

Honest - Transparency is key, Whether that's providing clear bills to our customers or trusting our staff to do the right thing.

Ambitious - All of us are ambitious about the future of So Energy and what we can contribute to it.

Inquisitive - We are also questioning the Status Quo to see if there is a better way to do things for our customers

Caring - We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues
Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.