Production Engineer (TL2)

Kaluza; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP

Life Assurance

Flex Fund 5%

26 days holiday

Flexible Bank Holidays

Progressive Leave Policy

Personal Learning Budget

Home Office Budget

Job summary

Kaluza, the Energy Intelligence Platform, is seeking a Senior Production Engineer to lead architectural design and reliability of our distributed infrastructure across regions. You will champion SRE practices, build secure IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineers in modern DevOps standards.

Join a high-impact team in the UK, with hybrid work options and a focus on uptime, security, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Hands-on production engineering, SRE or DevOps in public clouds (AWS/GCP).
• Architect scalable infrastructure and drive platform ownership.
• Experience with IaC, containers, and modern CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and drive reliability engineering for multi-region infrastructure.
• Champion SRE practices: observability, incident response, chaos tooling, post-incident RCAs.
• Develop IaC and CI/CD pipelines to reduce deployment friction.
• Lead complex production initiatives end-to-end and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with product/engineering to balance speed, security and cost.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps

Cloud platforms

IaC (Terraform)

Kubernetes/Docker

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Scripting (Python/Go/TS)

Security & DR

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

• Location: UK - Hybrid

• Level: TL2

• Team: Applied Engineering

This role is based in the UK and requires existing right to work in the UK.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Kaluza Overview

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.

What will I be doing?

• Drive the architectural design, technical strategy, and reliability engineering of Kaluza's distributed infrastructure to support multi-region scalability and continuous uptime.

• Champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, optimizing system observability, automated incident response, chaos engineering, and post-incident root cause analyses.

• Build, enhance, and maintain secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation pipelines, minimizing deployment friction across cross-functional engineering teams.

• Own complex production engineering initiatives end-to-end, acting as a technical authority and key escalation point for mission-critical infrastructure incidents.

• Mentor and upskill engineers across the department, cultivating a strong culture of operational excellence, modern DevOps practices, and architectural standards.

• Collaborate closely with product and engineering leaders to balance rapid feature delivery with system performance, security compliance, and infrastructure cost optimization.

About You

Ideally you'll have/be:

• Strong hands-on production engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience managing high-throughput distributed systems in public cloud environments (AWS/GCP).

• Demonstrated technical leadership skills with a track record of architecting scalable infrastructure, driving platform ownership, and upskilling team members.

• Deep proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), container orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker), and modern CI/CD tooling.

• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) alongside strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, or TypeScript).

• Solid understanding of distributed network design, cloud security best practices, automated failover, and disaster recovery strategies.

What will set you apart:

• Prior experience in high-concurrency event-driven SaaS architectures, IoT platforms, or the green energy sector.

• Track record of introducing and scaling SLI/SLO/Error Budget frameworks across multiple product teams.

• Active contributions to open-source infrastructure tools or cloud-native technology projects.

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.

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 - Giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like

• 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!

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.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn. You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here.