Location: London (ideally 3+ day per week in the office in Chancery Lane, London)

Job Type: Full-time

The Company

Sightline Climate accelerates the deployment of climate tech solutions through industry leading data, analytics, and research. Sightline’s subscription intelligence platform gives investors, corporates, and governments the insights they need to confidently build and finance the new climate economy. Sightline Climate also produces CTVC, the industry-leading newsletter read by 60,000 climate leaders.

We launched our core product in November 2023 and it has gone from success to success. We are now looking to develop it further by adding even more innovative tools and AI-enabled solutions that empower Sightline clients to make informed decisions in the climate tech space.

The Team

Our engineering team consists of a mixture of back-end, front-end and data engineering specialists. We’re looking for a number of engineers who are technology generalists to join our team.

This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role in a scale-up environment. There are often times when we need to come up with a short-term tactical solution to deliver something a little quicker than we would like.

We believe in thorough automated testing, every PR must have the appropriate E2E and unit tests, and we own our responsibility for the entire platform.

The team is autonomous, multi-disciplinary and is currently broken down into three sub-teams.

The Role

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will work closely with our engineering team to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure for our platform.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design, implement, and maintain our AWS infrastructure using best practices for security, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Manage our Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability and optimal performance
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automated testing and deployment
• Create and maintain infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and other IaC tools
• Set up and manage monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch and other monitoring tools
• Optimize database performance and ensure proper backup and recovery procedures for RDS instances
• Design and implement networking solutions within AWS VPC
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment workflows and implement DevOps best practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application issues in production environments

Must Haves

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles
• Strong experience with AWS services, particularly ECS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, RDS, and VPC networking
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
• Knowledge of security best practices for cloud infrastructure
• Good communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Ability to work in our London office 3 days per week

A Plus

• Knowledge of monitoring tools beyond CloudWatch (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience with database administration and optimization
• Familiarity with data pipelines
• Familiarity with Python and JavaScript applications
• Experience working in a fast-growing startup environment

Application process

• Video call with hiring manager (30min)
• Technical assessment focusing on AWS and Kubernetes scenarios (60 mins)
• In-person / video pair session with team (60min)
• References and offer

Our Offer

• Opportunity to work, learn, and make an impact at a fast-growing climate tech startup
• The excitement and fun of being part of a growing, dedicated and professional group
• Generous stock options
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Sightline Climate is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.