Job category: DevOps

GreenTech DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Salary: £50k-£55k with your free parking space, access to on-site library/gym/pool
Location: Nottingham, hybrid remote with 1-2 weekly visits to the office

Are you a DevOps engineer with more than a couple of sun rotations experience under your belt?

Do you not wear a belt?

Are you a DevOps engineer, who may or may not wear a belt, that cares about our natural environment?

Are you a somebody who recognises the urgency for businesses to transition to green ways of conducting their operations, while also lowering costs and maximising performance? Read on.

Based in Nottingham, the company provides insights into increased energy efficiency by managing the space, power usage and the cooling of critical live environments, while at the same time aiding the path to decarbonisation.

Using clever 3D visualisation techniques, AI and machine learning, as well as remote sensing technology and integration tools, the software tools included gather, map and interpret huge amounts of data remotely in real time.

Your input as a cloud engineer will help support the cloud environments behind the main software platform, working with the development team on integration for new and existing projects to ensure successful production releases. There will also be an element of support and maintenance using the AWS security hub.

Your role would be key as you will be working together with the Head Cloud engineer, as well as collaborating with the QA manager and the 24/7 monitoring team.

For this position, you will be needed in the office once or twice a week and worry not, the environment is a buzzing, welcoming and supportive one, as the company is based in a Nottingham University site, so being in the office will be a treat.

Before applying, have your experience in AWS services, preferably including Dynamo DB, SQS queues, EC2, Aurora PostgreSQL, Security Hub, as well as your work with Linux, including BASH and your skill with CI/CD environments at the ready because you’re going to need all of it.

Now that you’re good to go, please hit apply or email maria@rebelrecruiters.co.uk for more information and a friendly chat.

*No belts were harmed in the creation of this advert.

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.

GreenTech Frontend Developer – Blockchain

Location: Remote, Worldwide.
Salary: Up to $110K

Blockchain isn’t something traditionally associated with climate impact and making a positive difference. More than a few would argue that anything blockchain linked could deliver a positive environmental or social impact.

But there’s an important argument to be made – in regard to greenwashing – for the transparency that blockchain can bring to the table.

It’s an undeniably exciting and interesting field of work with immense potential. Some see it as the next coming of the internet, Web 3.0 – ‘oooooh’, ‘aaaahh’…

But there are tangible examples of companies using blockchain to illuminate their supply chains, measure and then address, in terms of emissions and product sustainability. That’s not to be sniffed at.

Here we have a company making it easier for socially and environmentally driven individuals to find opportunities in their desired fields. To find jobs, projects and companies delivering the impact they seek.

Their platform enables people to search for projects and job roles, whether permanent, freelance or volunteering, the world over, and apply. The blockchain element enables them and the business or group to show what is achieved, a completed portfolio of work or outcomes, demonstrating their credentials and action to protect them against the heckles of greenwashing.

The company are globally dispersed with their base in Japan, but people spread around the world from India to the US.

The teams are driven by their passion for social and environmental action and have decades of experience helping refugees, working on renewables projects, tackling injustice and walking a path towards a healthier planet and society.

In terms of skills they’re looking for, Javascript or Typescript, React and NodeJS will stand out.

Following that, they use Solidity and Haskell with Cardano and Milkomedia and are Ethereum compatible so any exp touching those is great. And testing or automation experience to help establish an infrastructure that’s scalable on an international level will jump out, too. They want their platform to benefit companies, NGOs and motivated people around the world, creating communities that can amplify their impacts.

In terms of Infrastructure, they’re using AWS, with some GraphQL and are hoping to integrate algorithms and data structures to make it easier for folks to find work that matches their skills and experience.

They’re tackling problems that, so far, have only had local or regional solutions with limited reach or too niche a focus. If you’re keen to solve problems that have scaled and growing benefits for our one and only planet and its most prolific species, please hit apply.

Role: QA Engineer

Location: Nottingham (Twice a month in the office)

Salary: Up to 55k, with wiggle room for exceptional candidates

Fed up with being pigeonholed into one aspect of the business, seeking variety and flexibility in a role with the option to carry on learning? If so, please carry on reading this may be the perfect role for you!!!

This company is one of Nottingham’s success stories. They have grown and developed into a bonafide disruptive national Fintech brand, taking their own brand of ‘doing things differently’ to a traditionally slow-moving and cumbersome industry.

They’ve won loads of awards for both their disruptive technology and for also being an employer of choice, so you can be sure that by joining them you’ll be working somewhere that strives to do its best for their employees and customers.

You will be working with a small and friendly team and as I previously mentioned you will not be product focused you will be working on everything!!! Working within a small company you will have the option to do, even more, the last QA moved to another area within the business and this is something that they are more than happy to support as a long-term progression.

You will have experience with manual and automation testing, as whilst they are automation testing first, at times you will need to roll your sleeves up and get involved in manual testing. On the automation side, you will not be expected to write frameworks from scratch, however, you will be able to add to frameworks.

In an ideal world, you will have worked with API and database testing as well as the creation and maintenance of automated test suites. C# is the language that you will have experience with as you may also find that you have to do the odd bug fix.

So, if you are looking to join a friendly business which offers autonomy and trust, as well as a nice bonus package, then please get in and hit apply today!

Role: Data Architect

Location: Birmingham, hybrid working – 2 days a week in the office

Package: Up to £80k, negotiable for the right candidate plus bonus

There are a few companies that use their data well.

There are others who have all the tech to do amazing things, but very little real-world data to apply it to.

And then there are the companies who are sitting on vast treasure troves of data that they have accumulated over the years…but they know they could be doing so much more with it! That’s where this company is right now.

The business has grown rapidly over the years and the data team has grown with it. This role will be one of 2 senior positions within the data team, and is part-operational and part-architecture focused, so would suit someone coming from a hands-on Data Engineering role looking to move into architecture.

You will support the database application landscape and build out the strategic data platforms that they are moving forward to. Snowflake was introduced into the business a few years ago and this is something that will become a prominent feature in the business going forwards.

You will keep abreast of the latest technologies within data and demonstrate a leadership mindset. Data vault is something that would be a nice to have, however you don’t need to have used this in a commercial setting, as long as you are aware of the basic concepts and the advantages that it offers.

You will act as a data technology evangelist, using your knowledge of up-to-date tools, trends and capabilities.You’ll have hands on experience of defining, implementing and supporting a production database, with especially strong skills within Azure and SQL.

You’ll be used to working in DevOps driven environments with CI/CD, automation and containerisation technologies

As well as a salary up to £80k, you will be rewarded for your hard work with a great bonus, dental and family healthcare, global travel insurance and share scheme options as well as the standard benefits.

If you fancy a chat to see if this could be the right move for you, hit the apply button or give us a call to find out more!

Right, now that I have your attention, here’s all you need to know!

Role:  Embedded Firmware Engineer/Developer (hands on/sleeves rolled up)

Sector:  Wearable technology

Salary:  Up to £65k per annum

Working model:  Hybrid (2 days a week in Leicestershire HQ)

Focuses ” Embedded C, electronics, testing/debugging code, data structure understanding, system and hardware communication protocols, RTO’s)

Good old benefits:

• A truly flexible work culture.

• Unbureaucratic working structure with ability to present and lead your own work and ideas.
• Encouragement and budget for professional development.

• Developing a cutting-edge product, while growing both your technical skills and your soft skills.
• Generous holiday allowance (27 days + 8 bank holidays).
• Choice of hardware and access to the best software.
• On-site parking
• Ability to get involved and learn in other aspects of the business you are interested in, such as data collection, customer engagement and design.

You’ll be at the very edge of new technologies working on systems/hardware used by very cool people. If you love electronics and embedded C and want to make all your friends jealous that you have an ACTUALLY cool job, apply below for a response from myself.

Speak soon!

Role: DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer – AWS

Location: Nottingham / Hybrid (Remote but in the office once / twice a month)
Salary: £55,000 – £65,000 + 10-15% Bonus (overall minimum package is over £80,000!)

There’s certainly no shortage of positions within Cloud, DevOps, SysAdmin, Platform or Site Reliability (SRE) vacancies right now, you’ve probably scrolled past a dozen or so already!

With technology seeing a massive surge of interest over the last few years, everyone is crying out for the heroes who can implement solutions that we mere mortals could never hope to understand.

But why would you join this company in particular?

Well, apart from excellent benefits, a competitive salary (up to £55,000 per year), and a level of support, progression, and development that is basically unmatched by all others in their market, they can offer you the one thing that really counts: the chance to create something truly unique!

With a brand that extends across the globe, it would be fair to say that this is the company that provides the FinTech solutions that power everything else when it comes to FinTech. They create solutions that power the way the entire western world views finance.

You’d be joining a team of around a dozen platform engineers in one of a few teams, helping to mentor the more junior guys and working closely with your senior colleagues to guide the deployment of complex cloud systems.

You’ll be a proficient DevOps Engineer but a few things I’ll be looking for are; a software focus with shell scripting exp e.g. Bash or an OO language such as Python / C# etc, Configuration automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, Cloud formation, Terraform etc), building automation and CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Rundeck, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Kubernetes, TeamCity etc. Although you’d be mainly working with AWS, they’re a multi-cloud organisation so you’d get exposure to Azure, GCP and (soon) Alibaba along the way.

They’re a big organisation, so this may not be the best place for people who want to shy away or hide in the corner. You don’t have to be the life of the party, but if you’re comfortable in your own skin and don’t mind sharing duties and explaining things to stakeholders from time to time, you’ll be just fine.

The nuts and bolts are available in more detail, but these are the key highlights! If you think you’re made of the right stuff and find out more, get in touch!