Location: Hub based! Bristol, London or Glasgow

But you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best

Team: Infrastructure and Platform Engineering

Salary banding: £55,000 - £95,000

Experience: Expert

Working pattern: Full Time

Reporting to: Platform Engineering Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

Joining the Infrastructure and Platform Engineering department in the wider Infrastructure, Reliability & Developer Experience area, we provide technology platform services crucial to the operations of all OVO Group systems and companies, all driving OVO’s members towards zero-carbon living.

This role in a nutshell:

We’re looking for a talented Platform SRE. 

Your key outcomes will be:

• Be responsible for maintaining our data messaging architecture, based around Kafka (external managed service), using site reliability engineering best practices
• Ensuring our central kafka architecture is able to scale efficiently
• Developing best practices, tools, and libraries to make Kafka easier to use and more reliable for product teams
• Help troubleshooting Kafka issues
• Performing platform maintenance and operational activities
• Input into infrastructure platform strategy
• Managing and maintaining cyber security controls
• Incident response, on-call a possibility on a team rota
• Be the go-to expert 
• Proactively work with vendors to secure additional support as needed and ensure their activities are coordinated to ensure minimal downtime and risk to business continuity

You’ll be a successful Platform SRE at OVO if you…

• Experience with Kafka
• Software Engineering experience
• Demonstrable cloud experience and knowledge (e.g. GCP)
• Security engineering including key concepts are ideal
• Knowledge of DevOps principles, practices and tooling 
• BigQuery experience a bonus
• Excellent communication skills
• Practical knowledge of infrastructure operations and service management

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £55,000 and £95,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, no problem, we're still keen to speak to you.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits. Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargersFor your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..