Senior Platform Specialist, OVO

£53.8-60k

+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

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Glasgow

London

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1 day a week in office

Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone

Posted today

Meet the team

Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone

1001+ employees

B2CEnergySustainability

Posted today

Meet the team

£53.8-60k

+ You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

Kafka

Terraform

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Bristol

Glasgow

London

More information about location

1 day a week in office

1001+ employees

B2CEnergySustainability

Company mission

We launched in 2009 to make energy better. Over 4 million members, 5 million trees planted, and Plan Zero launched in 2019. We help UK homes reduce bills and carbon with smart tech and expert support. We believe energy can be better for customers, wallets, and the planet, uniting brilliant people to help decarbonise homes and simplify energy management.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Show technical confidence across cloud and on-prem platforms, with the ability to dive deep into automation, networking, and infrastructure-as-code
Consider end user experience and scalability in day to day operations
Are naturally security-minded, always considering risks, controls, and how to keep systems resilient
Are comfortable with incident and problem management, staying calm under pressure and resolving issues quickly
Are adaptable and open to change, ready to embrace new technologies and ways of working

What the job involves

This role ensures OVO’s platforms run smoothly, securely and at scale - providing the foundations our teams need to accelerate the transition to zero carbon
Stronger resilience: Cloud and platform services are stable, secure, and scale smoothly with business demand
Greater automation: Reduce manual processes through Infrastructure-as-Code and tooling, improving efficiency and reliability
Improved security posture: Cybersecurity controls are embedded, monitored, and regularly enhanced to minimise risk
Faster delivery: Teams can release and operate services more quickly thanks to optimised platforms and automated pipelines
Effective incident response: Platform issues are resolved quickly, with proactive problem management to prevent recurrence
Mentorship impact: Helping junior engineers grow their skills through support and guidance, raising the overall capability of the team
Within your first 6 month you’ll:
Onboard: Bring in new platforms and map out their ownership and lifecycle
Stabilise and optimise: Review current platforms and implement resilience and performance improvements
Embed automation practices: Deliver Infrastructure-as-Code templates for at least one core platform (e.g. logging/alerting or certificate management)
Strengthen security controls: Conduct a security gap analysis across platforms and implement at least one new control to reduce risk exposure
Have strategic alignment: Influence and contribute to the team roadmap in line with OVO Tech strategy and Plan Zero objectives
Example Platforms: : Cloudflare ZTNA, Go Anywhere MFT, Digicert, Aiven Kafka, Virtual Desktop, Github, Datadog, Cloud hosting, Terraform

Our take

On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. It's analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, it's offering is organised into four different energy plans, that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.

In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.

While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Meet the team

Kate Cottrell, Smart Meter Engineer

Our mission

Supporting our customers on the journey to zero carbon by delivering exceptional customer service and promoting energy efficiency.

Insights

Top investors

43% female employees

14% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (2.5)

Trustpilot (4.6)

Company

Employee endorsements

Inspiring mission

"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."

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Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jul 2023

$270m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Feb 2019

$270m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $581.9m

Company benefits

On-target bonus up to 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal
Flex Pay: 9% on top of your salary - 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash
34 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
For your health: With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more
For your wellbeing: With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more
For your lifestyle: With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations
For your home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers
For your commute: Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
For your belonging: To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you

Company HQ

Bristol, UK

Articles

Plan Zero

OVO's Path to Zero

Diversity & Inclusion at OVO

Flexible Working at OVO

Leadership

David Buttress

(CEO)

CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO

Louise Bailey (Belonging Lead)

We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to at least 30% Women in Tech at OVO by 2026
We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report

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