Dev Ops Lead

Heata is a groundbreaking green distributed compute network that uses the waste heat from compute to heat the water in people’s homes, helping to tackle climate change and the fuel poverty crisis simultaneously.

Backed by British Gas and a number of other prominent investors, the company has a network of units installed in UK homes and is now expanding the team in a number of key areas. This is a rare opportunity to join a start-up at an exciting phase in its journey.

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Position overview:

This position offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of an innovative clean-tech project, leveraging technical skills to make a positive environmental impact. It's ideal for someone passionate about green technology and highly skilled in modern computing and network technologies.

We’ve developed a solid base in conjunction with SecureLinx (https://securelinx.com/) and SUSE.

We’re looking to build out and scale up that platform. Adding in automated deployment, configuration and testing wherever possible to enable quick and secure repeatable deployments of services for our growing client base.

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Core responsibilities:

1. Platform Development: Lead the running and scale out of our distributed compute network, leveraging your experience with enterprise Linux environments, Dev-Ops and Cloud-Ops.
2. Automation and Scalability: Define and help implement automation processes to ensure quick and secure deployment of services to meet the demands of a growing client base.
3. Maintain and Improve Security: Protect Client workloads and hosts (the home owners) against security compromises and data breaches; in both directions.
4. Technical Client Interaction: Understand and anticipate how clients will engage with our services, design, build and document APIs ensuring a user-friendly, clear and consistent experience.

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Technical expertise required:

1. Containerization Technologies: Proficiency with Docker / Podman / other container frameworks.
2. Container Orchestration Tools: Working knowledge of an Orchestration framework; Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.
3. System Knowledge: A strong understanding of hardware, networks, and storage systems, and their impacts on application and network performance.
4. Cloud Operations: Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure.
5. Scripting and Programming: Very competent at the Linux command prompt, and at least one programming language like Python, Rust, Go, C++, Java, etc.
6. Version Control: Experience with Git.
7. Configuration Management: Skills in Cloud init, Ansible, Salt Stack, Puppet, or similar tools.
8. Network Security: Setting up of wide area networks, with a preference for experience in Wire Guard.

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Desirable skills:

1. Commitment to Project Goals: An interest in clean tech, sustainable practices and social responsibility.
2. SUSE Stack: System is based on SUSE’s transactional Leap Micro, using Salt Stack configuration through Uyuni.
3. High-Performance Computing (HPC): Experience with HPC and tools like SLURM would be advantageous; either as a user or admin.
4. Distributed Workloads: Background in managing distributed systems.
5. Single Pane Solutions: Familiarity with Rancher, Azure Arc, etc.
6. Workflow Orchestration Tools: Knowledge of Argo Workflow, Airflow, Nextflow or similar.
7. Continuous Integration Tools: Use of Jenkins or similar.
8. Security and Risk Management: Skills in vulnerability assessment and risk management; ideally including automated testing for vulnerabilities.
9. Documentation: Ability to produce clear internal, and ideally customer-facing documentation.

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Details:

1. Participation in Options Scheme
2. £70k-£90k depending on experience and option package.
3. Part-Time / Contract also considered
4. Based in Godalming (GU7 1EY) adjacent to Station; Regular trains from Waterloo
5. 10 minute drive from Guildford, parking available
6. Ideally would be based in the office, but can be hybrid; depends on experience / independence; can discuss.