Senior Cloud Platform Software Engineer

Job Description

Our mission is to make clean power accessible. We are passionate about making a positive impact on communities and the environment where we work.

We're designing, financing, building and operating the world's most sophisticated battery systems to enable the take up of more renewable power, electrifying fleets for cleaner air, and providing clean, portable power including repurposed electric vehicle batteries. Our proprietary software and data analysis optimises operational performance for our customers to reduce emissions and costs.

Since we began in 2017, we've raised over £2 billion in debt and equity funding and transformed it into >1GW of grid-connected batteries live or under contract and c.2,000 electric vehicles supported. We have operations in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Benelux, the USA and a global headquarters in London.

We're the leading owner and operator of battery storage in the UK, supporting the National Grid with the uptake of renewable power. We also work with c.90% of the UK's major bus companies, powering 25% of the UK e-bus market. We're also the number one owner and operator of e-buses in Australia and New Zealand, and are quickly expanding into light commercial vehicles and trucks. Our rapidly growing company is looking for highly talented and motivated people to join us.

The Opportunity

The Cloud Platform team is a central team in the Product Management and Engineering department. We provide both tactical daily assistance to our colleagues in the application teams, as well as think ahead about what our Internal Developer Platform needs to offer to facilitate Zenobes ambitious goals.

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Software Engineer to join our team and be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure to support Zenobe's applications and services. You will help the development of our AWS cloud architecture using automation and DevOps practices. This will include CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and system monitoring.

Collaborating closely with development teams, you will troubleshoot complex issues, optimise performance, and enforce compliance with industry standards. Your role will also include evaluating emerging cloud technologies to align with business goals and drive innovation.

While the whole team reports into the Engineering Manager, as a Senior engineer you will be involved with mentoring other engineers, helping your team grow, and taking on some team and project leadership activities.

A Taste of the Day to Day

Our team is structured in a way to avoid the context switching associated with being both a reactive and proactive team, however over a typical week you can expect a typical day to be a mix of being a go-to person when another team or another Cloud team member is facing an unknown issue with a production or pre-production workload, to planning, leading and executing on our ideas for a more reliable and scalable usage of AWS.

• Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, real-time and batch data pipelines that support our products and analytics.
• Support and mentor teammates, sharing knowledge and reviewing designs and code to maintain a high standard of engineering quality.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of our data platform - balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Partner with stakeholders such as product, analytics, and data science teams to understand data needs and build fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Help the team unblock technical issues through pragmatic decisions and by bringing your experience to bear on tough problems.
• Promote good practices in data engineering, including testing, scalability, maintainability, observability, documentation, and reliability.
• Drive incremental improvement by contributing to platform-level tooling, automation, and performance enhancements.
• Participate in code reviews, planning, design discussions and general chit-chat, contributing to a healthy, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture

Health and Safety

• Actively contribute to Zenobe's commitment to health and safety, wellbeing and sustainability by; integrating these principles into daily responsibilities, ensuring a safe and supportive work environment, promoting both the physical and mental health of self and colleagues, and adopting sustainable and energy-efficient practices to minimize environmental impact. By doing so, each employee at Zenobe plays a vital role in fostering a culture that prioritises overall safety, holistic wellbeing, environmental sustainability in our business operations.

What We're Looking For

We realise that certain groups of people are less likely to apply for a role if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. To be absolutely clear: if you like the look of this job and think you could do it well, we encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience. Above all, Zenobē is looking for collaborative, flexible, empathetic people who are interested in creating and promoting practical routes to a zero carbon world.

Essential

Domain specific technologies:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Control Tower etc.
• Hands-on experience and daily management of Kafka.
• A working knowledge of Kubernetes.

Tools:

• Proficiency in Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch).
• Strong automation skills (e.g., Ansible, GitHub Actions) for reliability and operational tasks.

Practices:

• Solid understanding and practical experience with GitOps principles and tools, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
• Proficient with version control using Git and collaboration via Git-based workflows.

Personal:

• Excellent communication skills, able to present technical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading others by example.
• Willing and able to travel to our head office in London or other locations within the UK for team meetings up to once a month.

Desirable

• Worked in a cross-functional team as part of fast paced, rapidly evolving and dynamic organisation.
• Comfortable taking part in out of hours on call support rota and have provided in and out-of-ours (by rota) L2/L3 technical support.

Working at Zenobe

We're passionate about sustainability and are proud to offer Team Zenobē a pioneering and collaborative working environment. We encourage our people to take ownership of their career progression and celebrate those that can think outside the box.

If you'd like to join our community of likeminded people hit the apply button now, we'd love to hear from you!

What We Offer

Charge your career at Zenobē and receive

• Up to 33% annual bonus for being awesome
• 25 days holiday, increasing with length of service up to 30 days, plus bank holidays
• Private Medical Insurance
• £1,500 training budget per year, to ensure you grow as we do
• EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Pension scheme, up to 8% matched contributions
• Enhanced parental leave
• Cash back health plan
• Plus more

Lots of our people work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexitime and hybrid working. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but please talk to us about the flexibility you need and let's see how we can make it work.

Our Approach to Diversity and Inclusion

Our people are our strongest asset and the key determinant of our success, and we value a range of skillsets and perspectives. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. We work to provide equal opportunities and an inclusive work environment, where everyone is fairly treated in the application process and through their career at Zenobē. If there are any adjustments that would help improve your experience with Zenobē, please let us know when you apply.