Platform Engineer, Kaluza
£55.5-69k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Be an early applicant
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£55.5-69k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate a sustainable, affordable, and resilient energy transition.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building and shipping production applications
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and a genuine curiosity to learn and solve challenging problems collaboratively
- Experience using cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, Azure or others
- Created, maintained, migrated Kubernetes clusters in production. If you haven’t yet, then you would love to get your hands on Kubernetes
- Excellent foundational understanding of distributed systems
- Experience and understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment, GitOps and related Infrastructure as Code technologies
- An appreciation of Site Reliability Engineering mindset
Desirable
- Relevant training and certifications
What the job involves
- You’ll be working on the Kaluza’s Energy Retail platform, a SaaS platform that aims to revolutionise the operating platforms for energy retailers globally. This platform has been built with scale and technical quality in mind and is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza’s customers
- You’ll play a pivotal role in building and evolving our internal developer platform, in order to empower our software teams. Your work will impact how our developers use cloud infrastructure, help teams to eliminate infrastructure toil, improve engineering productivity, reinforce security safeguards and constantly strive for greater cost efficiencies in operations.
- Engineering a scalable, reliable and developer friendly platform to promote seamless software development, deployment and operations
- Automation & Tooling: Develop tools to abstract the complex aspects of the platform from developers to improve developer experience and operational efficiency
- Manage infrastructure as Code: Use tools like Terraform, Helm and Crossplane to manage and automate provisioning of all cloud infrastructure and champion GitOps best practices
- Monitoring & Observability: Establish robust monitoring and logging foundations collaborating with the wider Site Reliability Engineering Function and ensure platform reliability and performance using the standard application performance management tools
- Security: Incorporate security best practices and ensure compliance of the platform with industry standards
- Incident Management: Participate in out of hours on-call rota, help troubleshoot platform related incidents and implement post incident improvements to prevent recurrent issues
- Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure clear communication of upcoming platform changes, coordinating upgrades and maintenance windows and holding service providers accountable to contractual SLAs
Application process
- Closing Date: 16th June 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- On top of a great pension scheme, you can spend an extra flex pot across a range of benefits that are most important to you - from charity donations, to tech loans, to taking it as cash - there's a wide range of options! There's also our annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Private Medical Insurance and Life Assurance
- 26 days holiday, including a day off for your birthday you can take at any point
- Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
- Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
- A dedicated personal learning budget
- Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
- And more..
Company values
- We're on a mission
- We build together
- We're inclusive
- We get it done
- We communicate with purpose
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at Ovo Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years, 3 months to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity 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 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- 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 Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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