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. Your work will impact how our developers use cloud infrastructure, help teams to eliminate infrastructure toil, improve engineering productivity, reinforce security safeguards, and constantly strive for greater cost efficiencies in operations.

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.

Nice to Have

Experience with monitoring & observability.
Knowledge of security best practices.

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.

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together

Ready to Transform Your Product Offerings?

We're keen to meet people from all walks of life - our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives, and skills, and we recognize talent on the basis of merit and potential. If you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working at Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn. You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here.

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