ABOUT POWER FACTORS
Power Factors is a software and solutions provider leading the next generation of clean energy with Unity, one of the most extensive and widely deployed renewable energy management suites (REMS) in the market. With over 300 GW of wind, solar, and energy storage assets managed worldwide across more than 600 customers and 18,000 sites, Power Factors manages 25% of the world’s renewable energy data.
Power Factors’ Unity REMS supports the entire energy value chain, from monitoring and controls to market analytics. The company’s suite of open, data-driven applications empowers renewable energy stakeholders to collaborate, automate critical workflows, and make more informed decisions to maximize asset returns. Energy stakeholders receive end-to-end support, including solutions for SCADA & PPC, centralized monitoring, performance management, commercial asset management, and field service management.
With deep domain expertise, AI-powered insights are delivered at scale so businesses can optimize assets, unlock growth, and make smarter decisions as the world rapidly transitions to clean energy. Power Factors fights climate change with code.
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Learn more at powerfactors.com.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our team ensures that reliability and performance of both internal and externally visible systems matches users' needs, while facilitating a fast rate of improvement. We use a mix of open source, SaaS, and internally developed tools to manage and support our services life cycle (deploy, configure, upgrade, monitor, optimize).
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
- Maintain live services by monitoring performance indicators such as availability, throughput, and latency
- Grow systems by advocating for changes that enhance reliability, performance, and serviceability
- Work closely with development team members to design and deploy new services using various deployment environments including containers and packages, on both cloud and on-prem.
- You will be working with technologies like Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Mosquitto , Redis, Ansible, Kafka, MQTT, LAMP, Git, GCE, GKE, AWS, Kubernetes (GKE, K3s), RHEL
- Develop production flows and CD
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL
We believe you enjoy working in a purpose-driven organization and that you thrive in an environment where you need to find creative solutions to challenging problems in a fast-changing context. This also means that you are effective at managing multiple tasks of varying complexities and are driven by continuous learning and growth. Specifically, we are looking foran IT Systems Engineer with the following toolbox:
- 7+ years of experience with Linux, using the GNU/Linux command line, scripting, Linux tools and services
- Extensive hands-on experience with RHEL and variants (CentOS, ALMA Linux, Rocky)
- Extensive hands-on experience with IP networking, its hardware components (routers, switches) and its corresponding Linux services such as DHCP, DNS, Routing, NAT, Firewalling, VPNs, VLANs, Web Servers, Forward and Reverse Proxys
- Working experience with bare metal server systems such as HPE and out-of-band management tools such as iLO, IPMI etc.
- Working experience with Ansible configuration management
- Working experience with storage technologies such as RAID, LVM, SAN etc.
- Strong scripting skills (Bash and Python)
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar disciplines
- 3+ years of working experience with Docker and Kubernetes operations
- Working experience with virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU, libVirt) for creation, deployment and management of Virtual Machines and their network and storage components.
- Working experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, or others)
- Working experience with modern IT security standards and practices (ISO27001), as well as authentication and access procedures (LDAP, PKI)
- Working experience on DB administration (Postgres, Cassandra, Redis)
- Application deployment experience in one or more of the following: Java, Go, Python
- A good team player, eager to distribute knowledge, able to work with minimal supervision
Nice to have:
- Professional certifications such as LFCS, LFCE, RHCSA, RHCE You have experience with modern SRE practices
- Experience working in a fully remote team and be able to embrace the remote first way of work, its advantages, limitations and responsibilities.
- Experience with cloud environments (GCP, AWS)
- See and appreciate the value of documenting your solutions for others to use
- Want to help us improve our systems and processes and contribute to other teams and the product
- Like to learn how things work and troubleshooting issues to their root cause
- Prefer uniformity and repeatability over quick "clever" hacks
- Do not like bias towards good and evil tech, but have sound technical arguments for your opinions
- Are not afraid to embrace new ways to do things, even if they have a steep learning curve
- Sometimes wonder about the nature of elegant solutions, i.e., the compromise between readability, extensibility, resilience, simplicity, and time
LIFE @ POWER FACTORS
We are an agile software development company – big enough to make an impact, but small enough to move quickly and execute in a growing industry. We are a team of bold and ingenious talents driven by results. We are passionate about making the world a better place. We seek fierce and humble people to help us achieve our ambitious plan.
WHY JOIN US
By joining the Power Factors team, you’ll be part of a dynamic group of innovative and driven individuals dedicated to making a positive impact. Every day, your work will directly contribute to advancing clean energy solutions and supporting global sustainability initiatives. Our culture runs deep and shows up in how we work together - committed, conscientious and collaborative. With many opportunities for professional growth, Power Factors is here to support your development as we lead the charge in transforming the energy industry.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Power Factors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to engaging a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
