Cloud Platform Engineer

Join us, be part of more. 

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that’s energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently – we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it and mend it. 
 

About your team: 

At Centrica Energy, our mission is to move it.  

We’re energy movers by nature. We’re a global renewable energy trading company which helps move energy from source to use – powering businesses, homes, and societies as they transition to a new sustainable energy future. If the idea of working to create a sustainable energy future also moves you, we may very well be the right place for you.

Great platforms should make it easier for people to build, deploy and improve products, without requiring every developer to become an expert in the infrastructure underneath. We are growing our Cloud Platform team and looking for a junior or mid-level engineer who wants to learn quickly while helping us create exactly that kind of experience.

You will work with AWS, Kubernetes and modern infrastructure tooling while supporting a platform used by around 80 developers and data scientists. It is a role with plenty of variety, from solving day-to-day technical challenges to automation and observability, alongside experienced engineers who will help you grow into broader platform engineering work.

If you are curious about cloud-native technology, enjoy getting to the bottom of problems and instinctively look for ways to make repetitive work simpler, this could be a great place to make your next move.

About the Role

Our Cloud Platform team builds and runs the cloud platform that supports around 80 developers and data scientists. We want our users to spend their time creating great products rather than navigating the complexities of Kubernetes or AWS, which puts developer experience and simplicity at the heart of how we work. Joining the team gives you broad exposure to our platform and the opportunity to learn alongside experienced engineers as you gradually take on larger platform challenges.

Your day-to-day work will bring you close to both the people using our platform and the technology behind it. You will:

• Help developers get the most from the platform by answering questions, supporting onboarding and assisting with day-to-day use.
• Follow up on incidents and alerts, investigate what happened and help address the underlying issues.
• Keep our infrastructure healthy while improving how easily our systems can be observed and understood.
• Automate repetitive tasks and make practical improvements to our tooling and security.
• Take part in our 24/7 weekly on-call rotation once you have had an initial period to get familiar with the platform and how we work.

Our platform runs on AWS and uses managed services including EKS, RDS and MSK, alongside open-source software across several Kubernetes clusters. Infrastructure is declarative and managed through Git, with Terraform and ArgoCD as well as a broad observability stack. We also build tools for application delivery and CI, primarily using Go and C#, alongside scripting.

About You

You do not need to arrive knowing every part of our technology stack. What matters is a genuine curiosity about cloud-native technologies and AI, an appetite to understand why things break and a preference for fixing problems properly rather than repeatedly working around them. You enjoy helping other people, can make technical subjects understandable and are keen to keep learning across a wide range of technologies.

There are a few foundations that will help you get started and grow with the team:

• You have hands-on experience with some of: Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git. Studies, a home lab or a first job all count. 
• You are passionate about cloud-native technologies and AI. 
• You like finding out why something is broken, and you like fixing it for good.
• If you have to do things repeatable, you have the urge to automate it away. 
• You enjoy helping people and can explain technical things clearly.
• You are curious and keen to learn a wide range of technologies.
• Your English is good, written and spoken. You say what you think.
• A degree in computer science. Equivalent practical experience is just as good.

About Centrica Energy

We are a global energy trading and optimisation company, moving energy from source to use and helping power businesses, homes and societies as the energy system transitions towards a more sustainable future. Across eight offices on three continents, more than 800 energy professionals connect producers, suppliers, large-scale consumers and trading counterparties across global energy markets.

We trade power, gas and LNG across global markets and work with renewable and flexible energy assets through services spanning Power Purchase Agreements, optimisation and flexibility, biomethane and energy certificates. Technology and market expertise play an important part in how we minimise risk, optimise opportunities and help our clients navigate the energy transition.

We describe ourselves as Energy Movers by Nature because energy is always moving, and so are we. As the energy trading and optimisation arm of Centrica plc, our mission is to help drive the green transition while supporting sustainable and predictable energy costs. We are also committed to putting inclusion at the heart of what we do: rather than asking people to fit our culture, we want them to add to it.

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Why should you apply?  
 
We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you. 
 
https://www.morethanacareer.energy/centricaenergy

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.   

 
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