Platform Engineer

Kaluza Ltd.; Whilton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Virtual GP Life Assurance

Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests

Perks at Work

5% Flex Fund

26 days holiday

Flexible Bank Holidays

Progressive Leave Policy

Personal Learning Budget

Home Office Budget

Job summary

Kaluza is hiring to build and evolve an internal developer platform that powers our software teams. You will shape how developers consume cloud infrastructure, reduce toil, and drive cost efficiencies while reinforcing security.

This role emphasizes collaboration across engineering foundations, automation, and observability. Ideal candidates will have production-grade Kubernetes experience, strong distributed systems knowledge, and familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC.

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping production applications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience using cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our internal developer platform to empower software teams.
• Improve engineering productivity and reduce infrastructure toil.
• Implement security safeguards and cost efficiencies in operations.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to upgrade services and hold providers accountable.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes in production

CI/CD & GitOps

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Crossplane

Job description

About the role

You'll play a pivotal role in building and evolving our internal developer platform in order to empower our software teams. Your work will impact how our developers use cloud infrastructure, help teams to eliminate infrastructure toil, improve engineering productivity, reinforce security safeguards and constantly strive for greater cost efficiencies in operations.

Engineering Foundations

Engineering a scalable, reliable and developer friendly platform to promote seamless software development, deployment and operations.

Automation & Tooling

Develop tools to abstract the complex aspects of the platform from developers to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.

Infrastructure as Code

Use tools like Terraform, Helm and Crossplane to manage and automate provisioning of all cloud infrastructure and champion GitOps best practices.

Monitoring & Observability

Establish robust monitoring and logging foundations collaborating with the wider Site Reliability Engineering Function.

Security & Reliability

Incorporate security best practices, ensure compliance, and participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota to troubleshoot and prevent recurrent issues.

Stakeholder Coordination

Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate upgrades and hold service providers accountable.

Requirements

Ideally you'll have Experience building and shipping production applications. Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a curiosity to solve problems. Experience using cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, or Azure. A strong desire to (or experience in) creating and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production. A solid foundational understanding of distributed systems. Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.

About Kaluza

Kaluza Values Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together.

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. With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

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.

Our Perks

• 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
• And more!

Inclusion Statement

We want the best people We're keen to meet people from all walks of life - our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential. #J-18808-Ljbffr