Golang Job: Specialist, Devops Cloud Operations (Remote in Can

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 fights climate change with code.

Power Factors has incorporated its three flagship solutions Drive, Greenbyte, 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

We are seeking a professional DevOps specialist to join the Power Factors Cloud Operations team and take a leading role in our DevOps tooling and CI/CD framework. As a leading SaaS provider to the renewable energies industry, our applications must be secure, highly available, and scalable with our customers’ growing demands. Being the case, we strive to push improvements and new features to our applications through automation and DevOps practices.

Internally, our development, architecture, and cloud operations team use DevOps tooling to build, deploy, and monitor applications and infrastructure in cloud environments – predominantly AWS (but some Azure and GCP as well). In general, the development teams are responsible for building and running their own applications and infrastructure – including creating their own CI/CD pipelines. In this role, you will interface with these teams to lead changes and improvements regarding DevOps practices and CI/CD tooling.

You will be responsible for evaluating our current DevOps toolset and processes and then helping to determining how we can further improve. You will also work to document and create best practices for using our DevOps tooling. You will work with our Application Security team to incorporate security into our CI/CD pipelines using Snyk (DevSecOps). You will work with development and cloud operations teams to troubleshoot any issues that may arise with pipelines and work to optimize builds and deployments.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Work with the rest of the Cloud Operations teams to support internal automation and tooling used to support AWS Landing Zone multi-account infrastructure
• Work with development teams and developer experience guild to streamline and improve developer experience and workflows when deploying infrastructure and applications to AWS
• Help standardize build, deployment, and operation tooling and processes for Docker containers running on AWS ECS and AWS EKS
• Maintain and create IaC using AWS CDK and assist development teams with any IaC issues related to AWS resources
• Provide guidance, support, documentation, and training to other teams on CI/CD pipelines and other DevOps tooling
• Optimize and streamline builds times, artifact management, and secret management
• Work with AppSec teams to get Snyk SCA and SAST tooling incorporated into CI/CD pipelines
• Help implement more complex deployments such as blue-green or canary
• Work with development teams to ensure applications are properly monitored for performance and security and integrated with central monitoring stack (Datadog)

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, work well under pressure, and are driven by continuous learning and growth. Specifically, we are looking for someone with the following toolbox:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or in a related field with minimum of 4 years experience
• Deep understanding and significant work experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes orchestration, and Service Mesh
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling – specifically YAML pipelines with GitHub Actions
• Good understanding of CI/CD for PostgreSQL databases using technologies such as Liquidbase
• Some developer experience with SaaS applications to better understand the challenges faced by development teams responsible with regards to DevOps
• Familiarity with .NET, Python, GoLang, and JavaScript languages
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such – preferably Datadog
• Experience with AWS CDK for infrastructure as code
• Experience with security tooling (SCA, SAST, DAST) and incorporating into CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to learn, analyze, and problem solve technical issues

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.