Site Reliability Engineer; Release Engineering

Overview

Job title: SRE (Release Engineering)

Location: London / Bristol / Edinburgh - Hybrid

Salary: £40,000 - £60,000

Team: Release Engineering team

Reporting To: Software Engineering Manager

This role requires an existing right to work in the UK.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

At Kaluza we embrace a flexible, hybrid work model that balances autonomy with the power of in-person connection. Many of our teams find value in coming together regularly to collaborate, strengthen relationships, and accelerate progress. We’re focused on shaping thoughtful, team-driven approaches that support both business impact and individual well-being.

Working within the SRE Release Engineering team, you'll contribute across Kaluza's software development lifecycle. Your focus will be on developing engineering solutions that enable our software teams to frequently deploy the highest quality code for our clients. You will enhance engineering productivity by optimising testing, deploy and release processes for all Kaluza engineering teams.

• Work with Engineering teams and QA teams to engineer high quality and usable tooling across the build, deploy and release pipeline
• Engineer a fully automated release pipeline which incorporated testing best practise and reduces toil for engineering teams
• Maintain and support Kaluza’s existing tooling across release, code repositories and centralised build and deploy tooling

• Proven experience with CI/CD methodologies and tooling
• Proven experience in building and maintaining release pipelines and tooling, adhering to CI/CD best practices.
• Excellent grasp of Dev Ops principles, including the practical application of DORA metrics.
• Comprehensive understanding of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), enabling effective communication, strong customer relations, and high-quality releases for both internal and external products.
• A strong appreciation for automation and a passion for developing internal tools that streamline workflows.
• Strong ownership and customer obsession. Developers are our customers.
• Strong Data driven principles.

• Experience in designing and building release processes for enterprise clients
• Experience in designing and building Git Hub Actions and Workflows
• Proficiency in full-stack or backend development with a strong preference for Type Script
• Practical experience using AWS with Terraform for infrastructure management
• A strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) mindset, with a focus on system reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Experience on test frameworks and a deep understanding of applying testing best practices.

Type Script, Git Hub Actions, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, React, Python

We are going through a period of significant evolution which is exciting and with it brings lots of opportunity and challenging work, which is not for everyone. To be successful in this role, you will be excellent at operating in ambiguous, changing environments, balancing multiple priorities simultaneously and get enjoyment from making the complex, simple.

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