Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

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Location: Hub Based - Hybrid for all

Salary banding: 64070 - 84569

Experience:Expert

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Delivery & Growth Lead

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Architecting Orchestration Enablement

Top 3 qualities for this role: Strategic Visionary Pragmatic

Where youll work:

Depending on the needs of your business area we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week and to go to OVO Connection events in-person.

Youll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices Bristol Glasgow or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop is designed to inspire people help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO:

At OVO we are on a mission to solve one of humanitys biggest challenges the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. Thats why we need diverse people from all abilities gender identities ethnicities ages sexual orientations life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet:

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So naturally the team youll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Heres how:

The Evergreen and CloudOps teams are at the heart of OVOs customer focused technology transformation. Building a scalable and efficient service to host OVOs applications and services. Evergreens goal is to make it easier for teams to host in GCP and at the same time to reduce CO2 usage through efficient and smart usage of cloud services. This is at the heart of OVOs Plan Zero.

This role in a nutshell:

As a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer youll help shape the future of OVOs cloud this role youll take the lead in designing building and maintaining the platforms that power our products and services. Youll set the standards for architecture and security across our cloud environments including Kubernetes and guide teams to deliver reliable scalable and secure solutions.

Youll have the chance to influence technical direction drive strategic platform initiatives and mentor talented engineers.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Design and deliver scalable reliable and secure cloud and platform architectures with a particular focus on Kubernetes.
• Define and lead the strategic roadmap for OVOs in-house GKE based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.
• Support teams adoption and usage of the platform and actively participate in support rotas and on-call activities.
• Establish and maintain security and compliance standards that safeguard our infrastructure and data in line with industry best practice and OVOs internal policies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship empowering engineering teams and fostering a culture of collaboration learning and continuous improvement.
• Lead architectural reviews to ensure solutions align with OVOs technical vision and organisational goals.
• Contribute to OVOs Community of Practices by sharing expertise leading discussions creating content and supporting cross-team knowledge exchange to promote best practice and continuous learning.

Youll be successful in this role if you:

• Extensive experience in cloud and platform infrastructure engineering with deep expertise in GCP Kubernetes and designing scalable resilient highly available architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud and platform security and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001 SOC2) with experience in cost management and optimisation of cloud resources.
• Proficient in Linux automation infrastructure-as-code practices GitOps and CI/CD orchestration.
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes networking role-based access control (RBAC) and security with experience in disaster recovery architecture and production performance optimisation.
• Skilled mentor and collaborative leader able to share knowledge influence multiple teams and drive strategic outcomes.
• Exceptional analytical problem-solving and communication skills with a pragmatic team-oriented approach.
• Passionate about fostering learning growth and a culture of technical excellence.

Lets talk about whats in it for you:

Well pay you between 64070 and 84569 depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us and you flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

Youll 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.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVOand theres flex pay. Well give you 9% Flex Pay 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 weve put at the heart of our offering add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Heres a taster of whats on offer:

For starters youll get 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

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people we need to listen to each others 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. Its up to you.

Oh and one last thing...

Wed be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe its just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what were looking for but not every single thing go ahead and hit apply. Wed still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements theres a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.

Required Experience:

Staff IC