Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Lunar Energy, a company transforming home power with all-electric products, as a Senior Platform Engineer. You will play a key role in ensuring platform reliability, security, and internal tooling. This position offers the chance to significantly contribute to the team's future and explore various aspects of our technology stack. We utilize functional programming and type systems to build flexible systems. The role requires experience in DevOps, SecOps, or Platform Engineering, along with expertise in AWS and CI/CD pipelines. Lunar Energy provides a competitive salary, stock options, generous paid time off, comprehensive health insurance, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• A minimum of 5 years’ of experience in DevOps, SecOps or Platform Engineering roles
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Strong understanding of networking and network security
• Proficiency in one or more scripting programming languages (Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.)
• Linux

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, highly available infrastructure and internal tooling solutions using TypeScript and Python in AWS
• Enable fast iteration through implementation and improvement of automation
• Take ownership of ensuring continuous operation of critical systems, including databases and ETL pipelines
• Reason about cloud infrastructure strategy to help ensure that solutions are the best fit for requirements
• Develop and evangelise security best practices, such as automation of a secure software development process

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with serverless technologies
• Experience with Typescript
• Proficiency in application penetration testing, ethical hacking, and vulnerability assessments
• Interest in the IoT and renewable energy industry

Benefits

• A competitive salary and stock options package
• 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays
• Private Medical Insurance via BUPA (medical history disregarded)
• A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash
• 5% employer contributions pension matching
• A budget for work-related training of £1,000 per financial year and an allowance of 4 training days
• Cycle To Work scheme and Workplace Nursery benefit
• ��200 upon joining for remote work set-up
• Access to Spill - Mental Health Support platform
• Enhanced Maternity + Paternity Pay
• Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
• Flexible start and finish times, fully remote working or hybrid depending on preferences