Senior Platform Specialist chez OVO Energy

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Team: Commodity Platforms within Infrastructure & Enablement

Salary banding: £53,750 to £60,000

Experience: Mid-level

Working pattern: Full time

Reporting to: Senior Platform Services Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Forward-thinking, Strategic and Collaborative

Top 3 qualities for this role: Technical Expertise, Problem solving and Organisational skills.

Where you’ll work:

Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. 

You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

We’re building secure, scalable cloud platforms that power OVO’s mission to deliver Plan Zero. Our team drives automation, resilience and innovation at the core of OVO Tech - enabling smarter systems, stronger security and seamless operations so the business can focus on creating a zero-carbon future.

This role in a nutshell:

This role ensures OVO’s platforms run smoothly, securely and at scale - providing the foundations our teams need to accelerate the transition to zero carbon.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Stronger resilience: Cloud and platform services are stable, secure, and scale smoothly with business demand.

• Greater automation: Reduce manual processes through Infrastructure-as-Code and tooling, improving efficiency and reliability.

• Improved security posture: Cybersecurity controls are embedded, monitored, and regularly enhanced to minimise risk.

• Faster delivery: Teams can release and operate services more quickly thanks to optimised platforms and automated pipelines.

• Effective incident response: Platform issues are resolved quickly, with proactive problem management to prevent recurrence.

• Mentorship impact: Helping junior engineers grow their skills through support and guidance, raising the overall capability of the team.

Within your first 6 month you’ll:

• Onboard: Bring in new platforms and map out their ownership and lifecycle.

• Stabilise and optimise: Review current platforms and implement resilience and performance improvements.

• Embed automation practices: Deliver Infrastructure-as-Code templates for at least one core platform (e.g. logging/alerting or certificate management).

• Strengthen security controls: Conduct a security gap analysis across platforms and implement at least one new control to reduce risk exposure.

• Have strategic alignment: Influence and contribute to the team roadmap in line with OVO Tech strategy and Plan Zero objectives.

Example Platforms: : Cloudflare ZTNA, Go Anywhere MFT, Digicert, Aiven Kafka, Virtual Desktop, Github, Datadog, Cloud hosting, Terraform.

You’ll be a successful Senior Platform Specialist at OVO if you…

• Show technical confidence across cloud and on-prem platforms, with the ability to dive deep into automation, networking, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Consider end user experience and scalability in day to day operations

• Are naturally security-minded, always considering risks, controls, and how to keep systems resilient.

• Are comfortable with incident and problem management, staying calm under pressure and resolving issues quickly.

• Are adaptable and open to change, ready to embrace new technologies and ways of working.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £53,750 to £60,000, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.