Operations Engineer

Sennen is hiring an operations engineer to run and evolve our global offshore wind farm and renewable energy management platform.

Our vision is to transform infrastructure through technology, for a more sustainable world. Our mission is to become the go-to technology provider for renewable energy operators who are serious about safety, automation and efficiency at scale.

Deployments are to AWS - Sennen’s own account or a client’s account - entailing multiple databases and Docker services to facilitate our complex data integration processes, to drive our state-of-the-art applications. We're preparing for our largest solution to date, a multi-site five year partnership with EDF Renewables. In addition to our ongoing solutions for clients including London Array and Foresight, we have a healthy pipeline of new prospects and ambitious growth plans.

You'll provide the infrastructure, security and automation that underpins 24*7 production ops, ensuring we remain robust, nimble and efficient as we scale up. We have several existing infrastructure provision processes, as well as an ambitious roadmap of changes, and we’ll welcome your insights around the resources and evolution of the environments.

We offer a collaborative and friendly culture, with a flat structure. We can offer technical mentoring and guidance while you progress into delivering on more challenging objectives. You'll also have lots of autonomy, with plenty of time for research, to try things out and to complete projects. You'll find us open minded and supportive of your development and ideas.

Now is a great time to join us as we expand further, potentially becoming our lead on platform operations.

Example upcoming projects

• Completing migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes (EKS)
• Reviewing and upholding security across services running on AWS and within Linux
• Actively reviewing and implementing resilience and continuity/DR
• Implementing production and dev environments for new clients
• Representing the production considerations through solution planning, design and implementation phases, standups, retrospectives etc.
• Migrating older environments to our latest setup, without significant downtime
• Overseeing the move of all our production databases into Kubernetes (EKS)

We're looking for

• Someone ready to help inform, shape and run a dependable, attentive, approach to platform operations
• A depth of ability with running production services on AWS and with EKS
• Solid technical abilities in automation, Terraform, Kubernetes admin and Linux
• Experienced in provisioning and managing SQL and NoSQL database architecture, including backup/restore provisions
• A readiness to grow into improving security, resilience, reducing vulnerabilities
• An appreciation of CI/CD principles
• Optionally, some Azure admin skills
• Curiosity, pragmatism, open-mindedness, adaptability and resourcefulness
• Excellent listener and able to relate to a wide range of stakeholders
• Articulate oral and written skills

Current ecosystem - we'll welcome your influence

AWS, EKS | Kubernetes | Terraform | Helm | Datadog | Docker, Docker Swarm | Vault | TimescaleDB | PostgreSQL | MongoDB | Linux, Bash | Node.js, TypeScript

Salary and benefits

• Up to £70,000 - we're keeping an open mind
• 25 days holiday, plus public holidays
• Share incentive scheme
• Optional four day week | flexible hours | optional remote working
• A chance to be part of an exciting scale-up, set for rapid growth which treats its employees as grown-ups 
• We're reviewing our benefits package, with personal development, well-being and health in mind

About us

Sennen is an angel-investor funded 'clean tech' software company. Underpinning everything we do is a commitment to help deliver the energy transition to combat climate change and limit environmental destruction.

A team of 16 staff and a handful of consultants, we're busy and growing, with a healthy pipeline of new business wins, customer growth and innovation grants. 

We offer autonomy to make a positive impact within a progressive team. Our CTO is ready to help you understand our domain and to explore new responsibilities and personal growth to further your career development around automation and operations engineering.

We're an equal opportunity employer. We'll do our best to make you feel listened to, valued and understood within our hiring process and organisation. https://www.sennen.tech

Location: you choose - fully remote, hybrid, or from a shared office space near you. Remote and hybrid working has long been part of our culture. We get together quarterly, usually in Bristol, and we'll need you to attend in person, fully expensed, with reasonable notice. 

Even if your CV isn't ready, please talk with Andrew at techfolk to find out more:

0117 318 2447 | hello[at]techfolk.co.uk | [at]andrew_techfolk

Please note: we can only consider applicants that have an established right to work in the UK

RECRUITERS: Sennen has selected techfolk as its exclusive recruitment partner for this position and cold calling or speculative applications are not welcomed.