StepChange is a venture-backed climate-tech company that offers enterprise clients a comprehensive suite of ESG management solutions - ranging from compliance and reporting to climate risk assessment and strategic target-setting.
The StepChange platform provides a one-stop-shop cloud-based ESG solution that empowers enterprises to measure, evaluate, report, benchmark and improve their ESG performance, with a particular focus on climate. These technology solutions are complemented by a world-class team of domain experts and climate scientists, with a proven track record of deploying sustainability solutions.
About the role:
As a DevOps Engineer at StepChange, you will be responsible for managing the infrastructure that runs various algorithms running at a very high scale. Working closely with the development team to spin up and deploy new infrastructure. You’ll also be responsible for security and monitoring aspects of it while also ensuring that newer technologies are introduced into the system.
Responsibilities:
Establish a solid infrastructure framework and excellent development and deployment processes.
Troubleshooting and debugging production outages and helping the team in doing RCAs.
Provide infrastructural support to developers and help automate routine tasks.
Work with the development teams closely to gather system requirements.
Initiate cross-team collaboration with product development teams to design high-quality products.
Involvement in routine audits, upgrading of systems, capacity planning, and benchmarking.
Requirements:
6+ years experience as a DevOps Engineer.
Automation of tasks using languages such as bash, python, etc.
Experience in networking.
High ownership and accountability.
AWS, Terraform, VPC, ECS, Docker, Jenkins, CDN, Elastic Beanstalk, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Nginx.
Monitoring using CloudWatch, New Relic.
Familiarity with IaaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
Highly skilled in Kubernetes or Docker.
Experienced with modern deployment architecture for non-disruptive cloud operations including blue-green and canary rollouts.
Expert in AWS.
Knows best practices and discipline of managing a highly available and secure production infrastructure.
Benefits:
An exciting, enriching, and challenging work environment.
Ability to work directly with founding team members to shape the company.
Friendly and conducive working atmosphere.
Opportunity to participate in the zero-to-one journey of building a startup.
A competitive salary and comprehensive medical insurance coverage.
Significant upside through an employee-friendly ESOP policy.
Generous PTO / sick leave.
Annual company retreat.
Bring your pet to work.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
- Automation using Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Networking experience
- High ownership and accountability
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, VPC, ECS, Docker, Jenkins, CDN, Elastic Beanstalk, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and Nginx
- Monitoring experience with CloudWatch and New Relic
- Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet infrastructure-as-code tools
- Strong Kubernetes or Docker skills
- Experience with blue-green and canary deployment rollouts
- Expertise in AWS
- Knowledge of highly available and secure production infrastructure best practices
What We Do
Stepchange is a Seattle-based venture capital firm investing in ambitious companies that build software to accelerate energy abundance and upgrade critical infrastructure. The firm focuses on climate-oriented startups with immediate impact and has raised its first $7 million fund. It also produces The Stepchange Show, a series exploring human progress through transformative technologies, systems, and infrastructure for broad societal benefit across sectors.
