DevOps/SRE Engineer

Posted Mar 14

Join the Electra Vehicles team as we revolutionize Energy Storage!

We are a Boston-based B2B company developing the most unique AI Software to optimize the performance of Battery Packs across a wide range of industries. Electra's AI Adaptive Controls and Predictive Analytics Technology work in tandem to improve Electric Vehicle battery pack performance, lifetime, and safety, across entire eFleets.

Our Focus is in the Automotive Industry, particularly electric vehicle manufacturing, EV battery software, connected mobility, fleet management and analytics, and more. Although we are currently focusing on the Automotive sector, Electra's technology can be deployed into the Aerospace, Robotics, Grid and other industries that are rapidly transitioning into clean energy.

We have recently completed our Series A and are now building the organization to develop and deliver to our customers and their overwhelming demand for our technology. Our team is rapidly growing and that is why we need you!

Electra software runs in various automotive subsystems (cockpit controller, telematics and battery management systems). It collects sensor data from all parts of the vehicle, runs edge machine learning algorithms and connects to our cloud software to deliver superior EV battery performance.

You will build and setup CI/CD pipelines in BitBucket for our products. While your primary responsibility will be DevOps/SRE functions such as observability and overall systems architecting, you should be comfortable learning and contributing quickly to test automation as part of the pipelines.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and set up new development tools and infrastructure for our cloud and embedded development teams
  • Constantly automate and improve CI/CD build, development and release processes
  • Manage AWS permissions for the team and identify appropriate AWS resources
  • Prepare periodic reports of AWS resource usage and find opportunities for SCORE optimization
  • Ensure that our systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
  • Work as part of Agile teams to deliver testing that is in line with software development
  • Help develop systematic software engineering practices such as code reviews, design reviews, unit tests, module tests etc.

Required qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or higher
  • 7 or more years of experience in DevOps/SRE positions in a startup or corporate setting.
  • 5 or more years of experience working with and optimizing cloud resources in AWS or GCP or Azure
  • Experience configuring and managing EKS systems and deployments including Helm Chart development and cluster optimization and autoscaling capabilities.
  • Experience configuration and managing Message Queue based Cloud Applications, using Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ and others.
  • Experience with Secrets management in AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Collaborative team player
  • Excellent communication skills, written and oral
  • Experience with BitBucket pipelines

Preferred qualifications:

  • This can be a remote position based in Italy or the USA

Our Awesome Benefits:

  • Remote Work: flexibility to work remotely from Italy or the USA
  • Generous Vacation and Sick Leave Policy
  • Paid Holidays
  • Generous maternity and paternity leave
  • Training: 1 company-wide training per quarter with experts based on the team-selected topics 
  • Bonusly: fun, engaging employee recognition and rewards program
  • Open Book Management: full transparency of company finance, clients, products, know-how
  • Working in a dynamic, transparent and agile team
  • Patents: At Electra, we highly recognize our talents. You will have the opportunity to put your name as an inventor in patents if you'll come up with a novel idea
  • Additional perks will be released as we continue to grow

Electra Vehicles is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a workplace of mutual respect and an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome all applicants and strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBT+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on their race, ethnicity, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, color, religion, gender, national origin, gender identity, age, marital status, pregnancy, sex, citizenship, education, languages spoken, or veteran status. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. 

We will provide accommodations during the recruitment process upon request.