Full time, London or UK
About us:
BeZero Carbon is a carbon ratings agency. We equip world-leading organisations with the knowledge, tools and confidence to make better climate decisions. Our aim is to scale investment in environmental markets that deliver a sustainable future.
Our offices are in London, New York and Singapore. With a 170+ strong team made up of climate scientists, geospatial experts, data scientists, financial analysts and policy specialists, and global partnerships with local experts and world-leading research institutions, our ratings and risk tools can help you make risk informed decisions on carbon projects of any type, at any stage, anywhere in the world.
www.bezerocarbon.com
Job Description:
We’re looking for a Platform Engineer who will be a key member of the growing Infrastructure Team at BeZero Carbon. Initially, you will be required to assist the team in day-to-day support activities and to assist in migrating infrastructure from disparate systems into a unified approach that enables autonomy in teams to build and maintain their own architecture.
However, this is just the very first phase of a vision to make the management of BeZero’s infrastructure lean, cost efficient and secure as possible. The work we do at BeZero allows many different teams to work efficiently so they can deliver quality products (both internal and external) that ensure we continue to be The Carbon Ratings Agency. Not only will you be maintaining existing infrastructure, but you will also be continuously striving to find better ways to achieve this goal.
The current tech stack consists of Serverless functions, S3 storage, request/response services, relational databases, AI/ML tools like SageMaker, and many more.
This role liaises with multiple teams (internal tooling, data science, geo science, product engineering) each of which have different requirements, because of this, the role demands the ability to switch focus whilst maintaining quality.
Future work will include but is not limited to:
* rolling out a managed service to enable autonomy in teams
* global observability, think metrics, dashboards, and reports
* an approach to unified logging, alerting, and notifications
* creating a platform upon which to deliver new features effortlessly
This is an excellent opportunity to drive real-world climate impact with technology, and at the same time get exposure to some of the brightest minds in the carbon markets space.
Responsibilities:
* Create and maintain a highly available, flexible, and collaborative platform upon which building and deploying solutions is effortless.
* Build solutions that adhere to the best industry practices for deploying secure infrastructure.
* Ensure that all delivered solutions are highly available yet cost effective; communicating how the balance of these two requirements have been met is crucial.
* Create solutions that help teams deploy fully-functional, boilerplate infrastructure
* Understand the technical details of how our infrastructure is wired together to make it easy to triage, assist with and fix issues.
* Keep an eye on new technologies or methodologies to ensure we are working as efficiently as possible.
* Be a skilled communicator who can comfortably work at different levels of the organisation, adapting your communication style to the target audience.
* Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications.
* Continuously improve infrastructure and processes to enhance delivery speed and product flexibility.
Candidate Requirements:
* 3-5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.
* Proven experience with AWS; experience with GCP and Azure is a plus.
* Solid understanding of
o event-driven architecture
o observability tooling
o IAM patterns
o cloud networking and security
* Proficiency in Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure.
* Experience with other infrastructure automation tools such as CloudFormation, Ansible, or Chef would be considered.
* Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools.
* Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
* Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
* Expert familiarity with code versioning tools like Git.
* Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
* Demonstrates ability to adopt and improve practices that encourage and maintain good code health
What we’ll offer:
* Competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing VC-backed start-up through share options.
* 25 days leave (with additional time off between Christmas and New Year, and for your birthday).
* Benefits package covering private medical insurance, dental, critical illness cover, income protection, life assurance, medical cash plan and cycle to work scheme.
* Health and wellness cash allowance.
* Enhanced parental leave.
* The opportunity to work remotely.
* Regular social events.
* Nomad working over the summer, allowing you to work from another country.
We value diversity at BeZero Carbon. We need a team that brings different perspectives and backgrounds together to build the tools needed to make the voluntary carbon market transparent. We are therefore committed to not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, age, or disability.
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