Senior Cloud Platform Software Engineer, Zenobē

• 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
• Above all, Zenobē is looking for collaborative, flexible, empathetic people who are interested in creating and promoting practical routes to a zero carbon world
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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

• Apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience