Description
The Company
Kooling mission is to make the world's cities more efficient, safer, greener and beautiful. Our partners are some of the world’s best known Cities and some of the world’s top 10 Universities in both business and science. Kooling is backed by private investors, UK public funding R&D grants via the Government’s innovation agency Innovate UK as well as corporations such as Toyota Mobility Foundation.
The Job
This role is for an entrepreneurial and experienced candidate who is seeking to join - initially part time - a small team of experts leading large and prestigious projects. The role is initially part time with the goal of providing a route to soon join the company in a high-growth, full time role. You will lead the maintenance and improvement of Kooling Systems Architecture, ensuring our architecture is optimal for the purpose, performant, cost-efficient and secure.
Activities part of your job:
- Sizing and Scaling AWS (or new cloud provider) resources to fit business needs
- Envision, pitch and implement architectural improvements
- Maintain DB, AWS Certificates, Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker
- Maintain professional documentation
- Keep an eye on the market for opportunities to gain efficiency or performance with innovative tools, systems and methodologies
- Scouting and coordination of new hires if needed
- Write back-end code (ideally strong knowledge of PHP) to support the architecture and supervise/maintain one of the two main products backends (PHP)
Qualities we value:
- Ambition to be the best at your craft
- Pride for a job well done
- Desire to continuously learn
- Simplicity and clarity in communication
- Attention for details
- Tenacity
- Courage
- Camaraderie
Core Skills:
- AWS DevOps/Solution Architect in a Professional Environment
- CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
- PostgreSQL and nonSQL databases to handle large data volumes
- Linux
- Advanced knowledge of PHP back-end development is a strong advantage
Qualifications:
BSc/MSc in Computer Science or similar field is a strong advantage
AWS/other cloud providers Certifications
Fluent Professional English
Benefits:
Opportunity to join the company full time upon successful part-time engagement
All the usual benefits of joining a high growth tech company early
Location:
Hybrid or Remote