ABOUT ZENOBE

Our mission is to make clean power accessible, to accelerate the shift to zero-carbon power and transport around the world. We are passionate about making a positive impact on communities and the environment where we work.

We’re designing, financing, building and operating the world’s most sophisticated battery systems to enable the take up of more renewable power, electrifying fleets for cleaner air, and providing clean, portable power including repurposed electric vehicle batteries. Our proprietary software and data analysis optimises operational performance for our customers to reduce emissions and costs.

Since we began in 2017, we’ve raised over £2 billion in debt and equity funding and transformed it into >1GW of grid-connected batteries live or under contract and c.2,000 electric vehicles supported. We have operations in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Benelux, the USA and a global headquarters in London.

We’re the leading owner and operator of battery storage in the UK, supporting the National Grid with the uptake of renewable power. We also work with c.90% of the UK's major bus companies, powering 25% of the UK e-bus market. We’re also the number one owner and operator of e-buses in Australia and New Zealand, and are quickly expanding into light commercial vehicles and trucks. Our rapidly growing company is looking for highly talented and motivated people to join us.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Software Engineer to join our team and be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure to support Zenobe’s applications and services. 

You will lead the development of our AWS cloud architecture, automation strategies, and DevOps practices, ensuring efficient CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and system monitoring. Collaborating closely with development teams, you will troubleshoot complex issues, optimise performance, and enforce compliance with industry standards. 

Your role will also include evaluating emerging cloud technologies to align with business goals and drive innovation. As a Senior engineer, you will be involved with mentoring junior engineers and helping your team grow.

A TASTE OF THE DAY TO DAY

Delivery

• Deliver High-Quality, Customer-Focused Results: Consistently deliver high-standard work aligned with team and business goals, prioritizing tasks that maximize customer impact and business value.

• Take Full Ownership and Drive Improvements: Proactively identify opportunities for improvement, take accountability for outcomes, resolve operational issues, and reduce technical debt through root cause analysis and automation.

• Make Thoughtful, Strategic Decisions: Balance short- and long-term risks when making decisions, consult relevant stakeholders, and align choices with broader product and technology principles to maintain customer trust.

Direction

• Adapt and Thrive in Change: Embrace change with resilience, navigate ambiguity with focus, and maintain well-being while progressing toward team and business goals.

• Drive Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Contribute new ideas, experiment with approaches, and use customer feedback to inform and evolve team plans.

• Execute Strategic Goals: Collaborate on setting and delivering short-term objectives, break down complex initiatives, and lead the execution of multi-phase development roadmaps.

Talent

• Commit to Personal Growth and Development: Actively seek feedback, pursue learning opportunities, and engage in self-improvement with empathy, self-awareness, and a growth mindset.

• Support Team Growth and Excellence: Mentor peers, foster an inclusive environment, promote best practices, and contribute to hiring and team development initiatives.

Culture

• Foster Collaborative, Cross-Functional Partnerships: Build strong relationships across teams, ensure diverse perspectives are heard, and drive alignment through effective communication and coordination.

• Promote a Positive, Inclusive Team Environment: Contribute to a healthy team culture by supporting inclusivity, reducing bias, encouraging community engagement, and championing remote-first collaboration.

• Communicate Clearly and Proactively: Tailor communication to different audiences, share relevant information to keep stakeholders aligned, and initiate important conversations when needed.

Craft

• Write High-Quality, Scalable Code: Develop reliable, maintainable infrastructure-as-code and automation scripts, and uphold high coding standards through effective code reviews and best practices.

• Design Robust Software and Tools: Create simple, maintainable platform services and developer tools that are testable, debuggable, and easy for other teams to integrate and use.

• Architect Scalable Systems: Design and implement architecture that integrates multiple components with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance, while proactively managing cross-team technical dependencies.

• Align Engineering with Business Needs: Understand the broader business context, collaborate with stakeholders to ensure platform decisions support strategic goals, and work effectively across teams to drive progress.

Health and Safety

• Actively contribute to Zenobe's commitment to health and safety, wellbeing and sustainability by; integrating these principles into daily responsibilities, ensuring a safe and supportive work environment, promoting both the physical and mental health of self and colleagues, and adopting sustainable and energy-efficient practices to minimize environmental impact. By doing so, each employee at Zenobe plays a vital role in fostering a culture that prioritises overall safety, holistic wellbeing, environmental sustainability in our business operations.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We realise that certain groups of people are less likely to apply for a role if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. To be absolutely clear: if you like the look of this job and think you could do it well, we encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience. Above all, Zenobē is looking for collaborative, flexible, empathetic people who are interested in creating and promoting practical routes to a zero carbon world.

ESSENTIAL

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.

• Proficiency in Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure at scale.

• Solid understanding and practical experience with GitOps principles and tools.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.

• Proficient with version control using Git and collaboration via Git-based workflows.

• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch Logs).

• Strong automation skills (e.g., Ansible, GitHub Actions) for reliability and operational tasks.

• Excellent communication skills, able to present technical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading development teams by example.

• Comfortable taking part in out of hours on call support rota.

• Willing and able to travel to our head office in London or other locations within the UK for team meetings up to once a month.

DESIRABLE 

• Worked in a cross-functional team as part of fast paced, rapidly evolving and dynamic organisation.

• Provided in and out-of-ours (by rota) L2/L3 technical support.

WORKING AT ZENOBE

We’re passionate about sustainability and are proud to offer Team Zenobē a pioneering and collaborative working environment. We encourage our people to take ownership of their career progression and celebrate those that can think outside the box.

If you’d like to join our community of likeminded people hit the apply button now, we’d love to hear from you!

WHAT WE OFFER

Charge your career at Zenobē and receive

• Up to 33% annual bonus for being awesome

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays

• Private Medical Insurance

• £1,500 training budget per year, to ensure you grow as we do

• EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme

• Pension scheme, up to 8% matched contributions

• Enhanced parental leave

• Cash back health plan

• Plus more

Lots of our people work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexitime and hybrid working. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but please talk to us about the flexibility you need and let’s see how we can make it work.

OUR APPROACH TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Our people are our strongest asset and the key determinant of our success, and we value a range of skillsets and perspectives. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. We work to provide equal opportunities and an inclusive work environment, where everyone is fairly treated in the application process and through their career at Zenobē. If there are any adjustments that would help improve your experience with Zenobē, please let us know when you apply.