Head of Infrastructure, Sylvera
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Software underpinning carbon markets
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Software underpinning carbon markets
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make carbon offsets work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Has significant experience with Terraform within an AWS infrastructure environment (ECS/EKS/K8s) with an interest in crafting a simple yet scalable platform
- Has experience with monitoring solutions - e.g. Cloudwatch, Datadog, Prometheus
- Has experience scaling up a startup data and API platforms with no negative customer impactExperience having owned and driven improvements of, DevOps/SRE processes (i.e., on-call, incident management)
- Has knowledge about AWS/Cloud/Security to drive best practices, with insight both from an API security perspective, and from an operational security perspective (e.g. having experienced ISO27001/SOC2/Pen testing before)
- Is experienced defining DevEx strategy and best practices
- Has rolled out tracking of DevEx metrics like DORA using JIRA and Github dataIs a “doer” who is comfortable taking ownership of deliverables when needed
- Enjoys partnering with the wider engineering function and is able to communicate technical considerations with extreme clarity
- Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earthIs a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, with startup experience
- We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a mission-driven Head of Platform to join our Tech function, reporting directly to our CTO
- You will play a vital role in shaping our SRE, Security, and DevEx organisation and practices, as well as ensuring we are delivering best-in-class infrastructure in the cloud and on-premises for our Tech teams
- Leading our awesome Site Reliability and Developer Experience team of 3 engineers
- Contributing hands on to the design and development of our cloud infrastructure
- Devising our observability strategy and implementing monitoring to empower teams to achieve operational excellence via metrics, dashboards, alerts, etc
- Assessing the effectiveness of our on-prem infrastructure and associated developer environment with a view to unlock its full potential while remaining cost-effective
- Raising the bar in terms of infrastructure change management and integrity, developing processes for testing infrastructure changes in partnership with the engineering team
- Designing and implementing a strategic plan for a secure platform, across APIs, and operational security (requirements for ISO27001/SOC2 process, when and how to pentest etc.)
- Building out an integrated DexEx strategy, defining the core set of developer tools, and best practices to maximise developer happiness and productivity
- Being an internal champion for security - empowering the wider teams in terms of security best practices
- Guiding the whole Tech organisation on the adoption of healthy cost management practices so that teams can optimise their compute, storage and tooling spend
- Doubling down on reliability, scaling up our incident management process so as to better serve our customers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sylvera is scaling carbon markets with software, by developing tools to quantify stocks of carbon stored in vegetation using AI applied to satellite or drone data.
Using current quantification techniques, it is not possible to provide accurate and regular data on the performance of forestry projects, which leads to issues with corruption, fraud and uncertainty. This leads to significant financial and reputational risk for corporates purchasing offsets and makes it hard for high quality forest projects to secure fair prices and low cost finance at large scale.
By providing a quantitative sequestration audit trail and associated risk ratings, Sylvera intends to underpin effective voluntary carbon markets. Its 2023 funding round is being put towards its entrance into the US market and hires across engineering and product.
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Insights
279% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Unlimited Holiday
- Christmas Shut Down
- Private Medical & Life insurance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Monthly Friday lunch budget
- Team social budgets
- One-off WFH allowance
- Enhanced Paid Sick Leave
- Mental Health support
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Allister Furey
(CEO & Co-Founder)Allister is a repeat entrepreneur with a PhD in Machine Learning and an MBA from London Business School. As well as 10 years developing technology in the renewables industry, he has built and operated business units in Asia, Continental Europe and the UK
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