Platform Engineer

About the Position

Kaluza is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our team in Melbourne, Australia. You’ll play a pivotal role in building and evolving our internal developer platform to empower our software teams.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Foundations: Engineering a scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly platform to promote seamless software development, deployment, and operations.
• Automation & Tooling: Develop tools to abstract the complex aspects of the platform from developers to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
• Infrastructure as Code: Use tools like Terraform, Helm, and Crossplane to manage and automate provisioning of all cloud infrastructure and champion GitOps best practices.
• Monitoring & Observability: Establish robust monitoring and logging foundations collaborating with the wider Site Reliability Engineering Function.
• Security & Reliability: Incorporate security best practices, ensure compliance, and participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota to troubleshoot and prevent recurrent issues.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate upgrades and hold service providers accountable.

Requirements

• Experience building and shipping production applications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a curiosity to solve problems.
• Experience using cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, or Azure.
• A strong desire to (or experience in) creating and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production.
• A solid foundational understanding of distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: $125,000 - $145,000 + Superannuation
• Flexible working - 3 days in our CBD Melbourne (WeWork) office
• Progressive leave policies - including leave dedicated to the moments that matter to you the most
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• 26 days holiday
• Novated Leasing
• Purchase Leave

About the Company

Kaluza reimagines energy to bring net-zero within everyone's reach. Our intelligent Platform enables energy utilities to unlock the full value of a radically changing energy system and propel us to a future where renewable energy is sustainable, affordable, and accessible for all.

We champion a flexible, hybrid work approach and we find that teams often benefit from coming together in the office at least 3 days a week to foster connection and accelerate progress. Outside of these collaborative opportunities, we aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. As a company, we come together annually for our conference and end-of-year celebrations!

Our goal is to build a self-sufficient and empowered team here on the ground in Australia. We're well on our way, but until we get there, we still have some reliances on our UK team. Being comfortable working flexibly for a portion of your working week to cover time zones is required.