Staff Release Engineer

As Staff Release Engineer at Kaluza, you will shape the global CI/CD strategy and release architecture to enable safe, frequent software delivery. You’ll lead the design and roadmaps for release ecosystems across engineering domains, driving automation, SRE practices, and AI-enabled tooling. You’ll champion standards and metrics to boost productivity while ensuring secure, scalable multi-tenant platforms. This role offers impact at scale in a mission to decarbonise energy, with cross-functional collaboration across a global team.

• 26 days’ holiday
• 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents
• private medical insurance
• life assurance
• pension scheme
• Flex Fund of 5% of salary

• Architect release ecosystems: design and roadmap centralized tooling to move software from source to production across engineering domains
• Drive engineering productivity and SRE practices: embed automated deployment, testing frameworks, and AI tooling to reduce toil
• Establish global standards and metrics: define and enforce DevOps practices, employing DORA metrics for improvement
• Orchestrate complex infrastructure tooling: own deployment platforms and IaC using GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD
• Mentor and upskill: provide technical ownership and guidance across engineers, fostering expertise in automated delivery and developer experience
• Hands-off & hands-on leadership: lead platform-wide release architecture while delivering high-impact proofs-of-concept for release infrastructure
• Audit and strategic design: drive architecture decisions with audits and tangible demonstrations of mission-critical infrastructure

• Strategic CI/CD & Release Architect: extensive experience in enterprise-grade CI/CD and internal developer platforms in cloud-native environments
• DevOps & DORA Expert: deep knowledge of SDLC automation and practical use of DORA metrics to improve productivity
• Technical mentor & leader: proven track record mentoring engineers and shaping technical strategy across domains
• Infrastructure & automation mastery: hands-on with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions; GitHub Enterprise/GitHub as Code a bonus
• Developer-centric & data-driven: focus on developer experience and data-driven decision making

• customer-centric mindset
• data-driven decision making
• collaboration across teams
• AWS
• Terraform
• Kubernetes