Release-Platform Engineer (Hybrid in Greece)

ABOUT POWER FACTORS

Power Factors develops software that accelerates the global energy transition by empowering all renewable energy stakeholders to collaborate, automate critical workflows, and make the best decisions. Power Factors fight climate change with code. 

Power Factors has incorporated its four flagship solutions Drive, Greenbyte, Unity and BluePoint to build an integrated suite of open and smart apps. These apps are purpose built for asset management, field service optimization, and performance optimization. Leveraging the domain expertise and machine learning-based advanced analytics within these apps, customers can maximize the value of their renewable assets to stay competitive.

Power Factors’ renewable energy software platform is one of the most extensive and widely deployed solutions in the market with nearly 200 GW of wind, solar, hydro, and energy storage assets managed worldwide.

Learn more at powerfactors.com.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our team uses a mix of open source, SaaS, and internally developed tools and processes to manage and support our SCADA software product life cycle (deploy, configure, upgrade, monitor, optimize) across a fleet of 1000’s of on-prem devices and multiple private Cloud k8s clusters.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• You will be working with technologies like Kubernetes (K3s), Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Mosquito, Redis, Ansible, Kafka, LAMP, Git, Bash, Python in a Linux environment.

• Work on our SCADA software product release process by integrating and configuring microservices written in Go, Java and Python using Ansible, Redis and Bash on K3s nodes.

• Perform and automate deployment and upgrades at scale, across a fleet of bare metal or PaaS K3s nodes.

• Maintain and debug production microservice based applications by monitoring performance indicators such as availability, throughput, and latency.

• Work closely with development team members to support existing microservices and integrate new ones to production.

• Maintain production flows and CD processes for deployment of software at scale.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

We believe you enjoy working in a purpose-driven organization and that you thrive in an environment where you need to find creative solutions to challenging problems in a fast-changing context. This also means that you are effective at managing multiple tasks of varying complexities and are driven by continuous learning and growth. Specifically, we are looking for a Systems/Release Engineer with the following toolbox:

Required technical and soft skills:

• Working experience with Kubernetes operations and containerized environments.

• 2+ years of working experience with Linux, using the GNU/Linux command line, scripting, Linux tools and services.

• Working experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics/Logs, Zabbix).

• A good team player, with developed communication skills, eager to learn and distribute knowledge, able to work with minimal supervision and deliver high quality work within time limits.

Highly appreciated skills:

• Working experience with IP networking, its hardware components (routers, switches) and its relevant Linux services such as DHCP, DNS, Routing, NAT, Firewalling, VPNs, VLANs, Web Servers, Forward and Reverse Proxys.

• Hands-on experience with RHEL and variants (CentOS, ALMA Linux, Rocky).

• Working experience with Ansible configuration management.

• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python).

• You see and appreciate the value of documenting your solutions for others to use.

We see it as an extra plus if:

• You have professional certifications on Kubernetes such as CKAD, CKA.

• You have a university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar disciplines.

• You have experience with modern SRE practices.

• You have experience working in a fully remote team and be able to embrace the remote first way of work, its advantages, limitations and responsibilities.

• You have experience with cloud environments (PaaS – Proxmox, VMware, GCP).

• You want to help us improve our systems and processes and contribute to other teams and the product.

• You like to learn how things work and troubleshoot issues to their root cause.

• You prefer uniformity and repeatability over quick "clever" hacks.

• You do not like bias towards good and evil tech, but you have sound technical arguments for your opinions.

• You are not afraid to embrace new ways to do things, even if they have a steep learning curve.

LIFE @ POWER FACTORS

We are an agile software development company – big enough to make an impact, but small enough to move quickly and execute in a growing industry, taking advantage of rapidly evolving technologies. We are a collective of bold and ingenious talents driven by results. Our team is made up of hard-working, fun-loving people who are passionate about making the world a better place. We seek fierce and humble people to help us achieve our ambitious plan.

WHY JOIN US

• A humble cause with a clear purpose – you will help us fight climate change with every day at work. We aim to be environmentally conscious in all aspects of our operations.

• Work with passionate experts and top-talents in your field – we are proud of our highly skilled crowd and the savviness each of us brings to the team.

• Friendly and uplifting atmosphere – we believe kindness and respectfulness is core for our culture. A friendly smile or a helping hand is never far away.

• Flexible hours and workplace – it is the result that counts, not when or where. Our hybrid/remote work setup allows everyone to set themselves up for success and create a more sustainable work-life balance.

• All the benefits you expect (and more) – besides the basic benefits (adopted to local needs and norms), you will enjoy perks such as 8h of paid volunteering per year and participation in our Corporate Bonus Program (to name a few).

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Power Factors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to engaging a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.