Senior DevOps Engineer, tem
£80.5k
+ Offers Equity
Energy transactions platform for renewable energy
Posted today
Energy transactions platform for renewable energy
21-100 employees
Posted today
£80.5k
+ Offers Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Rebuilding the energy transaction system, making it transparent and fair.
Role
Who you are
- Strong software engineering background with multiple years of experience, having transitioned to DevOps/Platform engineering
- Deep expertise in AWS, with strong emphasis on serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, SQS, IAM, AWS networking)
- Infrastructure as Code mastery with Terraform and Terragrunt
- CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions, including complex workflow design
- Strong scripting skills in Bash (additional proficiency in Node.js and/or Python is a big plus!)
- Monitoring and observability experience with modern tooling
- Understanding of DORA metrics and proven track record of improving them
Desirable
- Experience building internal developer platforms/portals
- Kubernetes & GitOps practices
- Service mesh knowledge
- Security best practices (esp. regulated industries/energy)
- Experience in startups or scale-ups
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our new Platform team, enabling faster, more reliable delivery through improved DORA metrics
- You’ll work across teams to build tools, optimise AWS infrastructure, and enhance developer experience
- From your first month you’ll be contributing to platform initiatives, by month two you’ll be proposing solutions to key pain points, and within three months you’ll be shipping improvements developers actively adopt
- By six months, you’ll have measurably improved DORA metrics and become a go-to DevOps expert
- Platform Development: Design, build, and maintain our internal developer platform that enables teams to deploy, monitor, and operate their services with minimal friction
- CI/CD Excellence: Architect and implement scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions that reduce deployment time while maintaining quality
- Infrastructure as Code: Lead the development and maintenance of our Terraform/Terragrunt infrastructure, ensuring it's modular, reusable, and well-documented
- DORA Metrics Improvement: Drive initiatives to improve our DORA metrics, identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions that accelerate delivery
- AWS Architecture: Design and optimise our AWS infrastructure for performance, cost, and reliability, leveraging services like Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, and SQS
- Developer Enablement & Automation: Partner with development teams to resolve pain points, eliminate toil through automation, and establish best practices for deployment, monitoring, incident response, and security
- Knowledge Sharing & Reliability: Mentor engineers, document processes, run workshops, and contribute to on-call rotations and post-mortems
Application process
- Our processes normally take around 2-3 weeks from first call to offer - please let us know about any adjustments to timelines that may be required
- First call with our Talent Team (30 Mins). This is to understand your experience, motivations, and discuss the role in more detail
- Behaviour Interview with our Engineering Managers (60 Mins). This is your chance to really understand the role, the expectations, and ensure alignment on ways of working
- Technical Interview with the Team (90 Mins). You’ll meet with potential peers in this session and will discuss technical topics and experiences
- Culture-Add Interview with Stakeholders (45 Mins). The final session will be with two cross-functional stakeholders, and will explore how your values align with ours, and is designed to be a genuine two-way conversation, your chance to understand what it’s really like to work at tem
Our take
tem is a next-gen energy transactions company that changes the way renewable energy is bought, sold and powered. Rebalancing the playing field away from "Big Energy", tem creates affordable, traceable and smart energy transaction management tools.
The company provides businesses and consumers with access to the same financial benefits as Big Energy companies by distributing its own purchased energy to customers. Once they’re signed up, customers are matched with a suitable generator, and the tem platform helps execute contracts, take payments, and manage invoicing.
This is a truly disruptive concept, and is proving to be a successful one. tem currently processes over £50 million in direct transactions and saves millions for over 1000 UK businesses wanting to switch from traditional utilities tied to the wholesale market. Whilst UK consumers are notoriously hesitant to switch providers, recent soaring energy prices is luring many into giving it a go.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The projects I have worked on at tem. have involved solving greenfield problems. Each project has challenged me in a different way keeping the work..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$14.2m
SERIES A
Jun 2023
$3.4m
SEED
Total funding: $17.7m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Day off on your birthday
- Fully remote - expect quarterly meet ups with your team
- Personal office budget £1200 / 1400€ per year
- Paid for company trip twice a year. Previous locations included Barcelona, Budapest and Marrakech.
- Wellbeing allowance of £150 / 170 € per month to spend on your wellbeing
- A generous options (stock) package
- Salary benchmarking twice a year. We aim to pay at the upper percentile (75th percentile) of the market, using London-based benchmarks. One of our core pay principles is “Same work. Same base pay.” This means we use spot rates instead of broad salary bands: everyone doing the same role at the same level earns the same base salary.
Company values
- Innovate with purpose
- Go all-in
- Keep it real
Company HQ
Nine Elms, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Joe McDonald
(Co-Founder & CEO)Resident CEO, Joe leads the creative vision behind tem. the brand, product and its platform. He is a passionate visionary who loves to climb mountains and has the most adorable dog.
Jason Stocks
(Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer)Jason is a world-class commercial leader with proven track scaling up high performing diverse teams. He is also a power house of high energy, high enthusiasm and a secret scuba diver instructor.
Bartlomiej Szostek
(Co-Founder & CTO)Bartek is an innovative programmer, with a craving for maximum performance, clean code and good architecture. He has a very cute baby girl who loves to join in on our calls - we’re training her young!
Ross Mackay
(Co-Founder)Data scientist, software engineer + physics whizz - Ross currently lives in the west country and will beat you hands down in a game of monopoly deal.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at tem
Charlie Stephenson (Head of People)
- Tem is all about championing small business communities, fighting for transparency and advocating for fairness in the broken energy sector. We put these principles at the heart of our business model and work hard to ensure our platform is accessible and simple for all.
- We're fully remote to ensure everyone can thrive in an environment that works best for them. Whether you prefer working from home in a Disney onesie or going to a bustling cafe, we support whatever helps you be your most effective self. Being fully remote also means we're lucky enough to hire team members from different countries and cultures and we spend time every Monday having a social call to share what makes us tick.
- We care about you and live our value of keeping it real. This means actively seeking your feedback through quarterly pulse surveys and implementing initiatives that truly matter to you. Anyone who joins us has a voice and one that is heard and valued.
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