IT & Software

Staff Release Engineer

Kaluza

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As Staff Release Engineer at Kaluza, you will shape the global CI/CD strategy and release architecture to enable safe, frequent software delivery. You’ll lead the design and roadmaps for release ecosystems across engineering domains, driving automation, SRE practices, and AI-enabled tooling. You’ll champion standards and metrics to boost productivity while ensuring secure, scalable multi-tenant platforms. This role offers impact at scale in a mission to decarbonise energy, with cross-functional collaboration across a global team.

Pay / Benefits
  • 26 days’ holiday
  • 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents
  • private medical insurance
  • life assurance
  • pension scheme
  • Flex Fund of 5% of salary
Responsibilities
  • Architect release ecosystems: design and roadmap centralized tooling to move software from source to production across engineering domains
  • Drive engineering productivity and SRE practices: embed automated deployment, testing frameworks, and AI tooling to reduce toil
  • Establish global standards and metrics: define and enforce DevOps practices, employing DORA metrics for improvement
  • Orchestrate complex infrastructure tooling: own deployment platforms and IaC using GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD
  • Mentor and upskill: provide technical ownership and guidance across engineers, fostering expertise in automated delivery and developer experience
  • Hands-off & hands-on leadership: lead platform-wide release architecture while delivering high-impact proofs-of-concept for release infrastructure
  • Audit and strategic design: drive architecture decisions with audits and tangible demonstrations of mission-critical infrastructure
Key requirements
  • Strategic CI/CD & Release Architect: extensive experience in enterprise-grade CI/CD and internal developer platforms in cloud-native environments
  • DevOps & DORA Expert: deep knowledge of SDLC automation and practical use of DORA metrics to improve productivity
  • Technical mentor & leader: proven track record mentoring engineers and shaping technical strategy across domains
  • Infrastructure & automation mastery: hands-on with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions; GitHub Enterprise/GitHub as Code a bonus
  • Developer-centric & data-driven: focus on developer experience and data-driven decision making
  • customer-centric mindset
  • data-driven decision making
  • collaboration across teams
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes

Reference: WJ-747_31181754

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