Lead DevOps Engineer, Myenergi
Renewable energy product manufacturer
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Renewable energy product manufacturer
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To pioneer a simple transition to renewable energy.
Role
Who you are
- Proven senior or lead DevOps engineer on AWS, including line-managing or leading others
- Strong Terraform and CI/CD experience, ideally CircleCI or GitHub Actions
- Production experience running Kubernetes (EKS) and serverless workloads
- Hands-on observability with OpenTelemetry and a modern stack, including SLOs and alert tuning
- Solid Postgres administration; experience operating data pipelines or a cloud data warehouse
- Daily hands-on use of AI coding assistants and agents, with a considered view on using them safely
- Good understanding of cloud security practice; willing to participate in the on-call rota
- Excellent communication; comfortable prioritising, working with stakeholders and reporting upwards
- Experience overseeing or working closely with an internal IT function
- Personal attributes: hands-on with a bias for action; builds ownership in a small team; calm, methodical and data-driven; inquisitive and collaborative; advocates for security, simplicity, sustainability and cost-aware design
Desirable
- ClickHouse, Redshift or Apache Iceberg; data engineering with AWS Glue or Spark
- Delivering the technical side of a security standard (Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001)
- Deeper networking (VPC design, PrivateLink, IPSec); Bash and Python; Node.js/TypeScript familiarity
What the job involves
- We are recruiting for a Lead DevOps Engineer to lead our DevOps team and own the day-to-day evolution of myenergi's cloud, observability and data platforms
- A hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to lead our DevOps team and own the day-to-day evolution of myenergi's cloud, observability and data platforms. The team runs the platform around the clock, from hosting and CI/CD to observability, the data platform and security controls
- The internal IT team is a separate team whose lead reports into this role. You will shape and prioritise the team's work, coach and develop its engineers, line-manage the IT lead, and remain a strong individual contributor
- Working to the direction set by the Head of Software and Cybersecurity, you will deliver the platform roadmap, act as technical escalation point for the platform, and lead the adoption of AI tooling within DevOps
- Lead a small team of DevOps and platform engineers: set expectations, give feedback and coach
- Line-manage the Internal IT lead; oversee IT roadmap, priorities, budget and escalations
- Prioritise, scope and size the DevOps programme of work across reliability, security and cost
- Own the on-call rota and incident process; lead major incidents and fix root causes
- Partner with development and firmware teams on their hosting and pipeline needs
- Communicate roadmap, risks and outcomes; day-to-day technical contact for AWS and vendors
- Own the multi-account AWS estate: environments, deployments, reliability and upgrades
- Evolve the platform in Terraform across networking, EKS and serverless, choosing the right fit
- Improve CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) so teams ship safely and often; lead cost reviews
- Operate Postgres, Redshift, Redis and OpenSearch with clear SLAs and backups
- Own the observability platform (ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry): logs, metrics, traces, synthetics, SLOs and actionable alerting
- Own the data platform: Glue pipelines, Apache Iceberg lakehouse, Redshift and CDC; serve BI users with traceable datasets and handle data requests with strong privacy practice
- Operate platform security controls (identity, secrets, hardening, vulnerabilities, incident response) within the Head of Software and Cybersecurity's strategy; embed security in CI/CD
- Keep IT and platform joined up on identity, access, joiner/mover/leaver and certification
- Lead adoption of AI coding and operations tooling in DevOps within agreed guardrails; use it daily and show measurable improvements
Our take
Renewable energy is the future for a better planet, this was something Myenergi founders anticipated when they began their Myenergi journey in 2016. Since its inception, the business has become renowned as one of the fastest-growing eco-tech firms and is the world's first eco-smart electric vehicle charging device pioneer.
Myenergi's eco-smart technology supplies tens of thousands of homes and businesses with its suite of renewable energy products and devices. Each of these supports its National Grid while giving users the power to control their flow of energy.
Due to its rapid growth, the Scallingborough-based company has ambitious plans to continue its global expansion. Recently developments, including the approval of its zappi GLO EV charger for participation in the UK's flexibility markets and its continues investment in community partnerships, demonstrate Myenergi's commitment to innovation and sustainability. As demand for smart home energy solutions continues to grow, the company is set to strengthen its international presence while helping consumers transition towards a more connected, energy-efficient future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2023
$39.6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $39.6m
Company HQ
Stallingborough, UK
Leadership
Lee Sutton
(Co-Founder & CIO)After Founding Myenergi in 2016, Lee initially served as the company's CEO until 2025, when they briefly moved into the role of CPO before taking on the role of CIO later that same year. Prior to Myenergi, Lee was a Technical Director at 4eco for over 9 years.
Andrew Clint
(CEO)Prior to joining Myenergi in 2025, Andrew was a Chief Commercial Officer at OpSec Security and a Director at AJ Clint Consulting. They also spent 13 years at De La Rue in various Commercial roles.
Jack Fielder
(CCO)Jack joined Myenergi in 2021 as a Chief Strategy Officer, moving into the role of Chief Commercial Officer in 2025. Prior to this, they spent 5 years at OC&C Strategy Consultants as a Consultant and Manager.
Greg Andrews
(CFO)Greg previously served as the CFO at WJ and Fircroft. They also spent over 5 years at Calder Group as a Group Finance Director.
Dave Bailey
(COO)Dave joined Myenergi in 2021 as a Production Projects Director, moving into the role of COO in 2022. Previously, they spent nearly 21 years at Kingfield Electronics as an Operations Manager/Director and as a Commercial Director.
Juliet Carter
(CMO)Juliet previously founded Carter Consulting. They also worked as a Director of Marketing at Fabacus.
Pearse McHenry
(CRO)Pearse joined Myenergi in 2021 as a Managing Director, moving into the role of International Sales Director in 2023 and CRO in 2025. Prior to Myenergi, they spent nearly 11 years at Solar Power NI / McHenry Bros Ltd/ BHC Distributors as a Director.
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