Release and Environments Manager

Job title: Release and Environments Manager

Location: London / Bristol / Edinburgh - Hybrid 

Part time available? Yes 

Salary: £80,000 - £95,000

Team: Engineering

Reporting To: Head of Quality

Closing date for applications: Friday 6th December 2024

Kaluza reimagines energy to bring net-zero within everyone’s reach. The Kaluza Platform enables energy utilities to unlock the full value of a radically changing energy system and propel us to a future where renewable energy is sustainable, affordable and accessible for all. 

From automating and simplifying core operations including billing to create a lower-cost, higher-engagement experience, to optimising energy usage across smart devices in the home, we turn tough challenges into win-win-win outcomes for customers, suppliers and the energy system. 

We have a strong flexible, hybrid working ethos, we aim to be as flexible as possible to balance work with life. As a company we come together annually for our conference and end of year celebrations! 

What will I be doing?

Kaluza is currently in an exciting growth phase, undergoing the next stage of our technology journey as we support our clients. To facilitate this growth, the Release and Environments Manager has two key areas of responsibility. 

Firstly, ensuring the stability, availability, and usability of the environments used by product teams are in line with production. This role involves coordinating with various teams to plan, set up, and maintain development and testing environments, as well as troubleshooting and resolving incidents in these environments. 

Secondly, having oversight of release trains, ensuring that all software released to Kaluza’s clients  has met the required quality gates, and that all changes can be traced throughout the pre-production environment stack.

The Quality  Environments and Release Manager will be responsible for implementing and improving processes and tools to streamline environments’ management and the release process, ultimately contributing to an overall improvement in quality and the reduction of the number of incidents in production.

About You 

Ideally you’ll have/be

• Experience in planning the set-up and maintenance of  pre-production  environments for product delivery teams. 
• Experience managing change release, following ITIL and Agile principles.

• Experience  coordinating with multiple  delivery and client support teams to ensure that test environments align with production and are suitable for code delivery.
• Experience managing deployments and releases of code from different teams to production and pre-production environments.
• Dependency and risk management.
• Monitoring and managing the availability and performance of pre-production environments. 
• Ensuring the test environments are compliant  with security and data protection policies.  
• Providing training and support to teams in implementing new processes.
• Focused on continuous improvement of processes and tools. 

What will set you apart 

• A strong communicator, in verbal and written English.
• Negotiating and influencing skills.
• The ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to achieve a common goal.

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: 

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Read more about our values over on our careers site.

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday

• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like

• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family 
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more…

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.