DevOps Engineer

ABOUT PLEDGE

Pledge is the easiest way for businesses and their customers to make a positive environmental impact.

We’re on a mission to raise climate change awareness and support businesses in their net zero transition by offering the tools and software infrastructure to help scale greenhouse gas emissions measurement, reduction and offsetting.

Our founding team is highly ambitious and has a track record of building and developing successful companies and products, including a well-known unicorn. We’re currently operating in stealth.

We are passionate about our mission and are looking to build a team who shares the same motivation for solving complex and real-world problems.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Pledge’s first DevOps hire you'll play a defining role in building and setting up our infrastructure, development tools and automation. You'll work in close collaboration with engineers, data scientists, product managers and other stakeholders.

Pledge works with B2B customers across a range of sectors including logistics, travel, e-commerce and fintech amongst others.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Implementing various development, testing and IT infrastructure
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Problem identification, incidence management and root cause analysis
• Working with engineers and data scientists to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• 5 years of proven experience as a DevOps with responsibility for infrastructure development, monitoring and management, ideally for a B2B SaaS company
• Knowledge and experience of industry best practices and tools
• Deep experience with cloud service providers, ideally Amazon AWS, as well as Linux based infrastructure
• Experience setting up and optimising continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience with serverless architecture e.g. AWS Lambda
• Some experience with the stack used at Pledge : ReactJS, Node.JS, GraphQL, PostGreSQL, ElasticSearch
• Good knowledge of Ruby or Python and an ability to automate processes and tasks
• Worked at a large tech company or high growth startup

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL

• An appetite for technical and technological challenges
• Doing regular technology watch
• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles
• You can work autonomously and take ownership with a high degree of integrity
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• You operate best without lots of bureaucracy
• You approach work in a logical way and operate from first principles

BENEFITS

• Stock options - we are all owners of Pledge
• Flexible and remote working arrangements
• Learning and development budget for books, courses and conferences
• All the tech you need to perform
• Yearly offsite and team building events