DevOps Engineer (AWS) - 6 Month Contract

DevOps Engineer (AWS) - 6 Month Contract

Experience: 3+ years

Necessary:

• AWS (ECS/Cognito/RDS)

• CloudFormation

Desirable:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect

• Data & Analytics and Security Specialities

• Terraform

Don’t worry too much about having experience with the specific tech stack - we are generally looking for people with strong core engineering skills and principles. The team are polyglots who believe specific technologies are just tools for tackling problems.

The Company

BeZero Carbon is a London-based climate intelligence business that helps organisations make smarter Net Zero decisions. You will work primarily on the public-facing aspects of our SaaS product - the BeZero Carbon Markets Platform - a data and analytics platform for the Voluntary Carbon Market.

Founded in April 2020, we are rapidly growing with significant investor backing - we have raised series A and series B funding in 2022! Our 120-strong team combines expertise across climatic and earth sciences, sell-side research, data and technology and public policy, working from six continents.

We are on an exciting path to becoming the leading company on carbon intelligence, helping organisations throughout the climate value chain and creating prosperity through climate action.

The Role

We launched our core product BCM - the BeZero Carbon Markets platform - and it has gone from success to success. Along this journey, we’ve set up a number of AWS resources manually and have varying levels of maturity across our estate! We have a pretty clear vision of how we want to structure it all, but lack the capacity and the expertise to effectively build and subsequently maintain it.

We have a product engineering team of nine full-stack engineers who are technology generalists, a data engineering team of six engineers and a large geospatial team. In 2023, we will have a real focus on upgrading our internal tools to better enable our extensive in-house research teams. To facilitate this, we’ll need to build and support a lot of new AWS infrastructure. We’re looking for an experienced devops engineer to add expertise and provide consistency across these teams.

You’ll be very comfortable working across AWS - from configuring security settings and communication (VPC peering) between different teams’ accounts through to adding some maturity to our monitoring/alerting systems, and our infrastructure’s reliability, security and availability and financial controls.

The position would suit an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer with the Data & Analytics and Security Specialities also being desirable.

We do generally try and automate everything we can with CloudFormation templates (though we’re not committed to CloudFormation if it ceases to be the most appropriate solution) and experience with both CloudFormation and Terraform would be desirable (but not essential) for this reason.

The first line of code of the platform was written in September 2021 so it’s a relatively young codebase written entirely by current members of the team. We are constantly iterating our product plan in order to incorporate user feedback.

This is a very hands-on, delivery-focussed role in a scale-up environment. Because of this, there are always times when we need to come up with a short-term tactical solution to deliver something a little quicker than we would like. You will have a strong focus on code quality but also on flexibility and pragmatically paying off tech debt.

Hiring Process

Ask ANYTHING. The whole process is as much about making sure we’re a fit for you as much as the other way around.

• Initial screening call with Talent Manager (15 mins)

• Call with the VP of Engineering/CTO to answer any questions (30 mins)

• Pair with and get to know a couple of our engineering team (~2 hours)

• Reference checks + offer

Must Haves

• Good communication skills - we are constantly communicating in very technical language to each other one minute; semi-technical language to (for e.g) the product manager the next; and in layman’s terms to non-technical people the next.

• Kindness - we, as a team and as a company, believe in being kind over being nice. We are constantly giving and receiving constructive feedback and we are always trying to be empathetic. We’re all growing together.

BeZero Carbon is an Equal Employment Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other legally protected status. We want people from all walks of life to feel valued for their individuality, thrive in our business and share a sense of belonging. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, let us know!