Lead Platform Engineer

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 create the technology that redefines utilities and unlocks a new energy system of the future. By optimising renewable generation, building a more intelligent grid, and empowering utilities to deliver an exceptional customer experience, our operating system is transforming the industry worldwide.
It’s an incredibly exciting time to work in energy. Join us on our mission to improve the lives of ONE BILLION humans within the decade and shape a cleaner, better future for everyone.
The Shared Services Platform team is a horizontal Platform team that builds reusable capabilities for other Kraken teams, rather than owning one customer-facing workflow.

Its scope includes:

• Authentication and identity , including Support Site SSO and SCIM-based user provisioning.

• Event infrastructure , such as broker-as-a-service, topics, event schemas, integrations, and security/schema guardrails.

• Shared platform patterns and tooling that let teams self-serve, build securely, and avoid solving the same infrastructure problems repeatedly.

🚀 What you’ll own

• Have ownership of a functional team within Platform Engineering, working closely with the Director and Heads of Platform Engineering to define strategic objectives and team direction

• Own the production stability and reliability of the team’s services, ensuring they are built to scale and operate effectively in production

• Manage team priorities and deliveries

• Collaborate regularly and effectively with Platform Engineers in your functional team to deliver the technical implementation of the team’s strategic priorities, working alongside the Product Manager.

• Lead delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines

• Partner effectively in the wider Platform Engineering team to deliver outcomes

• Build a strong culture of open communication where teammates can ask questions without fear, promoting a positive and inclusive team environment.

• Live the Kraken culture and values, and be a role model for your team

• Line-manage a group of Platform engineers

• Set clear performance expectations and goals for team members

• Regularly review individual and team performance, offering actionable insights and constructive feedback to support and grow team members

• Deliver technical improvements such as small features and bug fixes, as well as larger projects with the team

• Support team delivery through code reviews, technology research and architectural guidance

• Drive and improve the non-functional elements of production systems owned by your team

🧠 What you’ll bring to the party

• Great experience with AWS. We use a lot of different AWS services and not just the standard few, so you should be comfortable with serverless, managed, and containerised services.

• Record of successfully and consistently delivering critical path projects, on time and at scale

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

• Meticulous organisation and planning skills

• Experience of mentoring and coaching a team to perform at a high-level of quality

• Experience managing and supporting large-scale internet-facing distributed systems, for millions of customers

• Knowledge of security best-practices, security and CI/CD tooling, and methodologies

⭐️ Bonus points

• Previous experience in leading technical delivery for small, highly-autonomous teams

• Track-record of effective collaboration with other teams and departments to drive holistic outcomes

• A proactive, innovative mindset with the ability to drive continuous improvement

• Previous experience working in a remote-first asynchronous team providing 24x7 support

• Familiarity with some of our tech stack:

• Typescript, python, or similar programming languages

• Terraform, or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool

• AWS services such as Lambda, IAM, EventBridge/SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS

• Messaging queues, event-driven async processing or similar technologies

• Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with Linux…

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