Senior Platform Engineer

Python Hybrid

Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!

Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.

We’re a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.

It’s a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future.

Kraken Customer

What we do: build the most AI-driven, innovative, forward-thinking platform for energy management. From optimizing resources to delivering cost-effective, exceptional customer experiences through advanced Customer Information Systems (CIS), billing, meter data management, CRM, and AI-driven communications, Kraken is powering the next wave of innovation in the energy industry.

Why we do it: future energy will not look like energy as we know it today. We need to not just think about our future, but build for it. Now.

The Team

We have expanded our tentacles and are looking for someone (based in Melbourne, Australia) to join our Global Platform Engineering Solutions team. Our Solutions team builds custom integration solutions with our clients and automates the build of the main Kraken Customer application. As an engineer on this team you’ll design, build and maintain the build process for new client environments as well as providing custom solutions to clients to ensure networking, regulatory, data safety, and other requirements are met.

What you'll do:

Build platform tooling and automation primarily in Python to help support new client infrastructure builds

Collaborate with clients and product teams to support client use cases and integrations

Provide production support for highly-available, internet-facing systems.

Improve CI/CD pipelines (we use CircleCI), and deployment tooling

Implement and maintain GitOps workflows using ArgoCD

Manage and operate Kubernetes-based environments - we use EKS.

Collaborate with a global, remote-first team using asynchronous communication.

Contribute to code reviews, troubleshooting, and technology evaluations.

What you'll have:

Proficient using AWS; we use a lot of different AWS services and not just the standard few

Docker and Kubernetes; we use Amazon EKS in production

Terraform, or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool

Software development experience in Python and Django (or equiv. Web framework)

Experience with using Linux

Previous experience working in small, highly-autonomous teams

Good communication, with a focus on doing this asynchronously across multiple timezones and countries

What will help:

Experience with event driven systems (e.g. AWS EventBridge)

Experience working on SaaS platforms, including engaging product teams to ensure up-skilling and knowledge sharing across teams

Proactive, problem-solving orientation with an interest in continual improvement

Prior experience in globally distributed, follow-the-sun teams.

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