About Kaluza
Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today's challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future. Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.
Responsibilities
•Design and build a scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly platform that sets the standard for seamless software development and operations.
•Drive self-service tooling and abstractions to hide platform complexity from developers, drastically improving developer experience and team velocity.
•Lead the use of Terraform, Helm, and Crossplane to automate provisioning and champion GitOps best practices across all cloud infrastructure.
•Establish robust monitoring, logging, and tracing foundations in close collaboration with the wider Site Reliability Engineering function.
•Embed automated security controls, ensure compliance, and participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota to troubleshoot and solve complex, systemic issues.
•Mentor engineers in the team, foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders to coordinate technical upgrades, and hold service providers accountable.
Requirements
•Strong experience designing, building, and operating production applications at scale.
•Excellent technical leadership, communication, and collaboration skills with a passion for mentoring others.
•Deep expertise with cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, or Azure.
•Hands-on experience architecting, managing, and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters.
•A deep understanding of distributed systems and resiliency patterns.
•Proven expertise with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps patterns, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.
•This role is based in the UK and requires an existing right to work in the UK. At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Conditions
We offer flexible working, with a requirement of 3 days a week in the office. This gives us the best of both: real time together to collaborate and build relationships, with the flexibility to work in the way that suits you best the rest of the week.
•Pension Scheme
•Discretionary Bonus Scheme
•Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
•Life Assurance
•Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
•Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
•Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
•5% Flex Fund - to spend on the benefits you want most
•26 days holiday
•Flexible Bank Holidays
•Progressive Leave Policy - With no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
•Personal Learning Budget - Upskill, learn and grow!
•Home Office Budget
