Senior Engineer, Cloud Operations (m/w/d)

Job Description

Power Factors is a software and solutions provider leading the next generation of clean energy with Unity, one of the most extensive and widely deployed renewable energy management suites (REMS) in the market. With over 300 GW of wind, solar, and energy storage assets managed worldwide across more than 600 customers and 18,000 sites, Power Factors manages 25% of the world’s renewable energy data outside China and India.

Power Factors’ Unity REMS supports the entire energy value chain, from monitoring and controls to market analytics. The company’s suite of open, data-driven applications empowers renewable energy stakeholders to collaborate, automate critical workflows, and make more informed decisions to maximize asset returns. Energy stakeholders receive end-to-end support, including solutions for SCADA & PPC, centralized monitoring, performance management, commercial asset management, and field service management.

With deep domain expertise, AI-powered insights are delivered at scale so businesses can optimize assets, unlock growth, and make smarter decisions as the world rapidly transitions to clean energy. Power Factors fights climate change with code.

About the Role

We are seeking a senior cloud engineer to join the Power Factors Cloud Engineering & Operations team to ensure the cloud infrastructure is running properly, efficiently, and securely. In this role, we are looking for someone who can instantly step into the team and be a senior contributor in our engineering and operational areas of our cloud team. As a leading SaaS provider to the renewable energies industry, our applications must be secure, highly available, and scalable with our customers’ growing demands.

Regarding the cloud infrastructure, Power Factors works with AWS, GCP, and Azure across its product portfolio. The cloud team works to ensure all infrastructure is created and run in accordance with best practices to ensure cost governance, security, and high availability. Within these cloud environments, Power Factors SaaS products are tested, deployed, and operated. These products are both single tenant and multitenant and employ microservices architectures using a combination of open-source technologies and cloud-specific ones.

The Cloud Engineering & Operations team is responsible for the foundational resources and environments used by the rest of Power Factors – including networks, backups, infrastructure as code, and shared resources used across various development teams, such as Kubernetes clusters and monitoring tools. With these responsibilities, the cloud team often works closely with development, architecture, and information security teams to ensure the cloud environments run in a secure and efficient manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other teams for cross-functional projects in the cloud
• Evaluate new technology and champion for improvements to existing tools and processes
• Work with junior members of the team to mentor and teach
• Optimized Cost Management - Implement automated approach balancing cost vs performance
• Cloud Governance / Security standards - ensuring compliance across cloud environments
• Monitoring / Observability stack – Working thru Design and upgrades to ensure platform stability and resiliency.
• Continuous Learning and Innovation – Stay informed about latest trends and technology
• Collaborating with stakeholders, such as developers, engineers, managers, and customers, to ensure the cloud services are delivered effectively and efficiently.
• Work with development teams to ensure high availability and uptime of SaaS applications

Required Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience will be considered
• Minimum 5 years of significant cloud experience with multiple cloud providers ideally including AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience administrating multi-cloud, multi-account cloud environments
• Experience with Monitoring stack technologies
• Experience in Cloud FinOps administration and cost saving strategies for AWS, GCP, AZURE
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Expertise in cloud networking, security, compliance, and governance
• Desire to automate and code all cloud infrastructure, CICD pipelines and IAC
• Experience working with supporting microservices-based cloud applications utilizing open source software such as Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka, and PostgreSQL

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.