Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Hub Based - Hybrid for all

Salary banding: £64,070 - £84,569

Experience: Expert

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Delivery & Growth Lead

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Architecting, Orchestration, Enablement

Top 3 qualities for this role: Strategic, Visionary, Pragmatic

Where you'll work: Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. You'll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO: At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet: Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you'll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here's how: The Evergreen and CloudOps teams are at the heart of OVO's customer focused technology transformation. Building a scalable and efficient service to host OVO's applications and services. Evergreen's goal is to make it easier for teams to host in GCP and at the same time to reduce CO2 usage through efficient and smart usage of cloud services. This is at the heart of OVO's Plan Zero.

This role in a nutshell: As a Staff Cloud Platform Engineer you'll help shape the future of OVO's cloud ecosystem. In this role, you'll take the lead in designing, building, and maintaining the platforms that power our products and services. You'll set the standards for architecture and security across our cloud environments, including Kubernetes, and guide teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions. You'll have the chance to influence technical direction, drive strategic platform initiatives, and mentor talented engineers.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Design and deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud and platform architectures, with a particular focus on Kubernetes.
• Define and lead the strategic roadmap for OVO's in-house GKE based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.
• Support teams' adoption and usage of the platform and actively participate in support rotas and on-call activities.
• Establish and maintain security and compliance standards that safeguard our infrastructure and data, in line with industry best practice and OVO's internal policies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, empowering engineering teams and fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Lead architectural reviews to ensure solutions align with OVO's technical vision and organisational goals.
• Contribute to OVO's Community of Practices by sharing expertise, leading discussions, creating content, and supporting cross-team knowledge exchange to promote best practice and continuous learning.

You'll be successful in this role if you:

• Extensive experience in cloud and platform infrastructure engineering, with deep expertise in GCP, Kubernetes, and designing scalable, resilient, highly available architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud and platform security and compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2), with experience in cost management and optimisation of cloud resources.
• Proficient in Linux, automation, infrastructure-as-code practices, GitOps, and CI/CD orchestration.
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes networking, role-based access control (RBAC), and security, with experience in disaster recovery architecture and production performance optimisation.
• Skilled mentor and collaborative leader, able to share knowledge, influence multiple teams, and drive strategic outcomes.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a pragmatic, team-oriented approach.
• Passionate about fostering learning, growth, and a culture of technical excellence.

Let's talk about what's in it for you: We'll pay you between £64,070 and £84,569, depending on your specific skills and experience. You'll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there's flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here's a taster of what's on offer: For starters, you'll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health: With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more.

For your wellbeing: With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more.

For your lifestyle: With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations.

For your home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers.

For your commute: Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans.

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging: To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other's experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing... We'd be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it's just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we're looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We'd still love to hear from you. If you have any additional requirements, there's a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.