Senior Platform Engineer

Core responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, highly available infrastructure and internal tooling solutions using TypeScript and Python in AWS
• Enable fast iteration through implementation and improvement of automation
• Take ownership of ensuring continuous operation of critical systems, including databases and ETL pipelines
• Reason about cloud infrastructure strategy to help ensure that solutions are the best fit for requirements
• Develop and evangelise security best practices, such as automation of a secure software development process

This role contributes to transforming how we power homes by building an ecosystem of all-electric products and delivering a more sustainable future through reliable, secure platform engineering for distributed energy resources.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in DevOps, SecOps or Platform Engineering roles
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using infrastructure as code
• Experience managing cloud databases at scale in at least one of: Postgresql, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Strong understanding of networking and network security
• Proven industry experience in Secops
• Proficiency in one or more scripting programming languages (Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.)
• Linux experience

Compensation and benefits:

• A competitive salary and stock options package
• 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays
• Private Medical Insurance via BUPA (medical history disregarded)
• A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash
• 5% employer contributions pension matching
• A budget for work-related training of £1,000 per financial year and an allowance of 4 training days
• Cycle To Work scheme and Workplace Nursery benefit
• Access to Spill - Mental Health Support platform
• Enhanced Maternity + Paternity Pay
• Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
• Flexible start and finish times, fully remote working or hybrid depending on preferences

Lunar Energy is on a mission to transform the way we power our homes by building an ecosystem of all-electric products, starting with a next-generation home battery system and a cloud PaaS to manage large fleets of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) assets.