Head of Technology - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Pawprint

Description

Company Description:

Pawprint is an employee engagement platform for climate action.

Our main focus is embedding sustainability across the goals and mindset of businesses and helping everyone at all levels play their part.

It's true that one person turning off a light isn't going to solve the problem, but if large groups of people act, spend and speak in a purposeful wayBig change is possible

That being said, we recognise the scale of individual versus business' carbon footprints, so we are actively seeking out ways to help the latter align with science-based net zero too.

Currently, we deliver data back to business customers to help them make informed decisions about the direction of their operations.

We have big plans to do even more in this space.

In terms of what it's like to work at Pawprint, we're a certified B Corp, Living Wage Employer, and 1% for the Planet member.

We strive to walk the walk and act as a shining example for all stakeholders.

A note on diversity:
to beat climate change, diversity of thought and experience is essential. Pawprint is dedicated to hiring great people from a wide variety of backgrounds - if your experience (life or work) has something to add, please let us know in your cover letter


Position Purpose:

To ensure the company is best placed to play a leading role in the tech for good movement, bringing Pawprint's vision to life through technology.

Requirements:


Key Responsibilities:

• Tech Team Lead
• Monitoring IT efficiency
• Assessing, monitoring and upgrading business systems and processes
• IT security and governance
• Managing and developing the business IT division
• Optimising business IT processes
• Expanding and maintaining our cloud infrastructure and services, following key principles of security, resilience and automation
• Supporting our release processes through design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines
• Providing expertise on Linux system administration, containerization and tuning
• Working closely with our tech teams and acting as a mentor and guide; constructively discussing design decisions within the group, evangelising DevOps best practices and ensuring our services can withstand the test of scale

Requirements:

• Essential experience:_
• Amazon Web Services
• Writing and maintaining InfrastructureasCode; AWS Cloudformation and CDK are our tools of choice
• Linux and Docker containers, and the associated tuning and troubleshooting
• Writing scripts with Python or another suitable programming language for operations automation; you should be very comfortable with Git
• CI/CD systems and pipelinesascode; we use Gitlab-CI, but we are happy to consider strong transferable knowledge from other CI/CD systems such as Jenkins
• Solid foundations of networking, security and resilient system design
• Desirable experience:_
• Deploying and managing at scale; AWS ECS and EKS (Kubernetes)
• Experience supporting Web Apps technologies; our stack includes React, PHP Symfony, Python and PostgreSQL
• Relational databases
• IT Automation technologies; we use Ansible and AWS Systems Manager
• Monitoring and Alerting tools; we use Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager
• Strongly beneficial:_
• GitHub/GitLab profile with examples of your work
• A genuine desire to learn what you don't know, to be a supportive presence in the team and to research and experiment with new services and tools
• A passion for Linux and an opensource oriented mindset; as it should be clear by reading up to this point, we have a Linuxbased tech environment and we strive to adopt open source software rather than closed counterparts
• Although this is not a developer role, understanding (one or more) programming languages is beneficial for this role, as it might help you with both design and troubleshooting tasks

Social and Environmental Responsibilities:

Pawprint is keen to ensure that all employees are socially and environmentally responsible and that management decisions are considerate of these responsibilities at all times.

There needs to be a balance between the economy and the ecosystem, hence we make all decisions based on their impact in the following areas:

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Environmental - all efforts are made to undertake business in an environmentally friendly manner. For example, we have a no flight policy for domestic travel and employees have the freedom to work flexibly where possible
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Philanthropic - we will actively support our nominated charities through financial donations each month and support employees in using charitable days to volunteer for causes personal to them
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Economic - we will strive to build a strong business financially with the aim to invest further in developments that allow us to extend our reach and drive further carbon reduction globally
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Ethical - we will always consider the ethics of our business partners and suppliers, to ensure we support fair trade and fair working practices and any investments we m