GreenTech DevOps Engineer
Salary: €75,000 – €90,000 + 15% bonus, equity + remote setup, conference and training budgets.
Location: Fully remote – Europe or UK based.
Forest management can be challenging. Cut too much and you’re causing unnecessary damage, too little and the risk of wildfire or damage to infrastructure can be devastating and costly.
Vegetation management may not sound all that exciting but building earth observation software to integrate satellite imagery and Machine Learning with data coming in from the team and remote sensors and other hardware on the ground presents interesting challenges!
These systems are used to efficiently manage resources and team activities, saving time and money.
Most importantly though, this saves homes, businesses and services from blackouts caused by seasonal and extreme weather events. It’s a game changer in energy and climate resilience.
The company have grown rapidly since the end of 2021. There are ~50 people now, with around 20 of those in development and data science.
So far, their DevOps function has been managed by the CTO and a part-time engineer. They’re looking for someone who can implement Infrastructure as Code and a longer-term DevOps strategy factoring in security and leading on gaining security certifications.
You’ll work to support the development team and have responsibility for reliability. They haven’t had any major issues so far, but if one came up, they’d need you to identify and understand the problem and get to work on implementing a fix.
You’ll also support the data team, perhaps helping implement machine learning models or refining data pipelines, so good data pipeline experience is highly desirable.
They use Google Cloud Platform but understand AWS is largely transferrable, alongside Docker, Kubernetes and Dagster. But experience with Argo, Airflow, Dask or others is transferrable.
If you’ve worked with satellite data or imagery, that’s hugely valuable, and Pangeo stack, so JupyterHub, Xarrat or Zarr will also stand out.
Most importantly they need someone to embed and influence their DevOps culture, someone who’s not afraid to coach individuals and teams.
You don’t need to know everything but a self-starter who knows where to look for information and who is keen to implement and share what they learn is what’s needed.
Following that, a real passion for climate solutions is something they’ll need to see.
They care about their staff. They have budgets to contribute to your training and development, and operate truly flexibly – so long as you’re available and overlap with the team (+/- 1 hour CET is best) you can work when you chose.
If this sounds like a bit of you please reach out. They’re remote first and will consider people anywhere in Europe. They can also provide visa sponsorship via a Netherlands government salary sacrifice scheme if you’d prefer to move to the Netherlands.
