About Octopus Energy and Kraken

Since 2016, Octopus has been on a mission to bring affordable, green energy to the world. With the help of our in-house developed technology platform, Kraken, we’ve become the largest energy supplier in the UK, opened retailers in 7 other countries, and licensed our software to retail giants includingE.ONin the UK and Origin Energy in Australia. We’ve reinvented energy products with smart, data-driven tariffs to balance customer demand with renewable generation - and we’re the biggest investor in renewable generation in the UK.

We've since expanded our tentacles and we are now looking for a Platform Engineer, based in Melbourne. We're looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful. Working with Kraken is a chance to join an exciting scale-up business within the energy supply sector, one that’s at the forefront of changing the landscape of the energy industry across the world. A role with us offers you the chance to contribute to building world-class operations that will catapult you into a fantastic career.

Our team

At Kraken we have developed a platform to provide data services to our retail businesses and clients across 22 deployments globally.

The data platform engineering team develops and manages the back-end systems and processes supporting this platform, predominantly working with time-series data fed into the system by our customers’ smart metres. We have developed a suite of applications to process, transform, and make this data available to downstream services.

To process the volume of data we typically see, our applications run PySpark or dbt jobs using Databricks as our Spark engine. We also leverage Airflow and Kubernetes heavily. We also employ software engineering best practices to design, test, and deploy our data platform and services.

For our stack we use…

Python as our main programming language

Terraform for our infrastructure definition

Kubernetes for data services and task orchestration

Helm for deploying and managing kubernetes apps

Airflow for job scheduling and tracking

Circle CI / Github Actions for continuous deployment

Parquet and Delta file formats on S3 for data lake storage

Postgres / aurora for our relational databases

Spark / Databricks for data processing

dbt for data modelling

SparkSQL for analytics

Streamlit for data applications

Git for version control

What you'll do...

We are hiring a Platform engineer to support the operation and maintenance of our data infrastructure. We are constantly growing and our current goal is to be able to deploy a new data platform end-to-end in a working week.

We are looking for someone who can support and contribute to that, is able to self-direct as well as working asynchronously across global product teams to ensure that best practice is followed in everything we build, deploy, and deliver

First and foremost, we want our platform engineers to have a passion for writing high quality code and building lean processes. We are a team of passionate and opinionated engineers working to build robust and reusable systems.

About you

We are looking for a candidate who will self-manage, adapt to our changing business requirements, and proactively work to scope problems and deliver pragmatic solutions. As well as growing our core functionality, maintenance of existing client infrastructure will be required.

Ideally you will have experience working with…

AWS

Terraform

CDC systems (DMS, Debezium etc.)

Kubernetes (EKS)

Python

CI/CD systems (CircleCI/Github Actions)

Version control (Git)

Additionally it would be useful to have….

Experience working with, managing, or tuning Postgres or similar DBs

An interest in or experience with data or network security

Experience with building repeatable and reusable patterns for deployment

Experience with maintaining and uplifting capabilities of existing infrastructure

Experience in identifying and resolving issues with critical batch and/or streaming processes

Experience with supporting colleagues on DevOps related queries/requests

Experience with other elements of our stack

Airflow

Jupyter

Spark/Databricks

Helm

Docker

What you will love about us

Our company culture - We are organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people.

Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we arein the top 5 companies in the UK, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together

Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success

Office - have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. We also have drinks, snacks and a coffee machine at the WeWork office space.

Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you

Additional Information

Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.

Octopus Energy

Platform Engineer 🇦🇺