Senior Engineer, Linux System/DevOps (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.*

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.

• Outside China and India

About the Role

Our team ensures that reliability and performance of both internal and externally visible systems match 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).

Key Responsibilities

• Perform and automate deployment, maintenance, and upgrades across a fleet of servers and devices
• 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.
• You will be working with technologies like Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Mosquitto, Redis, SaltStack, Ansible, Kafka, MQTT, LAMP, Git, GCE, GKE, AWS, Kubernetes (GKE, k3s), RHEL
• Develop production flows and CD processes for deployment of software and infrastructure systems at scale

Required Competencies

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 an IT Systems Engineer with the following toolbox:

• 7+ years of working experience with Linux, using the GNU/Linux command line, scripting, Linux tools and services
• extensive hands-on experience with RHEL and variants (CentOS, ALMA Linux, Rocky)
• extensive hands-on experience with IP networking, its hardware components (routers, switches) and its relevant Linux services such as DHCP, DNS, Routing, NAT, Firewalling, VPNs, VLANs, Web Servers, Forward and Reverse Proxys
• working experience with bare metal server systems such as HPE and out-of-band management tools such as iLO, IPMI etc.
• working experience with Ansible configuration management
• working experience with storage technologies such as RAID, LVM, SAN etc.
• strong scripting skills (Bash, Python)
• university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar disciplines
• 3+ years of working experience with Docker and Kubernetes operations
• working experience with virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU, libVirt) for creation, deployment and management of Virtual Machines and their network and storage components.
• working experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Prometheus, Datadog, or others)
• working experience with modern IT security standards and practices (ISO27001), as well as authentication and access procedures (LDAP, PKI)
• working experience with DB administration (Postgres, Cassandra, Redis)
• application deployment experience in one or more of the following: Java, Go, Python
• 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 LFCS, LFCE, RHCSA, RHCE
• 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 have experience with cloud environments (GCP, AWS)
• You see and appreciate the value of documenting your solutions for others to use
• You want to help us improve our systems and processes and contribute to other teams and the product
• You like to learn how things work and troubleshooting issues to their root cause
• You prefer uniformity and repeatability over quick "clever" hacks
• You do not like bias towards good and evil tech, but have sound technical arguments for your opinions
• You are not afraid to embrace new ways to do things, even if they have a steep learning curve
• 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
• 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.