Production Engineer

OVO Energy ,
London, Greater London
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Production Engineer DevOps & Software Engineering What's it like to work at OVO? You will be joining the Production Engineering team whose mission is to ensure OVO's software engineering teams have the right conditions to build and operate high-performance, reliable, secure & scalable systems. You'll provide coaching, implementation and guidance on improvements to infrastructure and observability across teams at OVO. This is a varied role where you'll be exposed to the full technology stack and will work across projects spanning deployment & infrastructure automation, SRE, performance engineering, release engineering and monitoring distributed systems, all with close collaboration with engineering teams. The Production Engineering team creates software tools, infrastructure and automation that are reusable across many software teams while being reliable for the future. This enables us to scale the freedom and autonomy OVO's engineering culture is built upon. Check out our Tech Blog to find out more about Production Engineering at OVO: Find out what the Production Engineering team have been working on: What will I be doing? * You'll be engineering tools that improve production & deployment capabilities for all teams; solutions that provide scalable foundations to building high-performing services * Work on defined projects, directly with teams, that aim to give their operations a boost, such as improving continuous delivery pipelines with pipelines and infrastructure as code * Align with the rest of Engineering Services in driving operational excellence & best practices around service performance, deployment, monitoring and availability That sounds super exciting, but... Do I have what it takes? We are looking for excellent software engineers and whilst experience is important, ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude; we see Production Engineering as a mindset. It would be excellent if you have... * A strong background in software engineering; we don't mind what language! (Python, Scala, Clojure, Java etc.) * Extensive system design experience * Knowledge/interest in Site Reliability Engineering * Knowledge of distributed systems and data streaming architecture * Experience with cloud computing (AWS / GCP) * CD/CI tooling & continuous delivery best practices * Network & Security knowledge * Knowledge/interest in Kubernetes and container orchestration * Experience in scripting languages and automation practices * Demonstrable experience in agile and XP environments Additional skills * Ability to articulate improvements within software engineering for operational benefit * An inquisitive and curious approach, with confidence to tackle difficult problems * Rapid adoptee of merit-proven new approaches & technologies * Problem solver / structured thinker * Always happy to help and a natural sharer of knowledge Want to check out more? Working in Tech at OVO Energy See how we work on our blog and our Tech Blog OVO tech github: A handful of our benefits... * We give you an additional 4% of your salary to buy benefits that suit you; we offer tech for your home, health care, ISA investment, cycle to work, taste & culture cards, additional holiday & more. * Flexible working hours * 25 days' holiday & day off on your birthday * Free breakfast every day * Lots of social events * The opportunity to get involved in teaching kids to code * Training budget - this includes conferences, off-site training, books & courses from O'REILLY Safari online * Matched volunteering and matched fundraising * You'd be working for an accredited Top Employer

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