Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Who are we?

Arenko was founded in 2014 and we are growing rapidly in an emerging sector. We’d describe ourselves as fast-paced and inclusive. Our team are self‑motivated problem solvers who take a collaborative approach to help the business develop and grow.

As we move to the high‑renewables and low‑carbon era, electricity storage is transforming the way the energy industry operates. The energy industry is fast becoming a digital and multidisciplinary sector that provides a fundamental service for modern society, but these needs must be delivered in a socially responsible way. Arenko is using new technology to add flexibility to the grid and secure supply in this fast‑changing industry, offering a huge variety of opportunities for the future.

At Arenko we are strongly committed to our mission of building a sustainable future by enabling a zero‑carbon grid worldwide. Energy storage has a crucial role to play in the energy transition, and our technology enables the transformation of energy systems. We have committed a Sustainability Strategy more details of which can be found on our website at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./sustainability/.

Sound like something you care about? Please read on…

A Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Arenko is a technical role responsible for designing and building new AWS infrastructure alongside the software teams and maintaining the operational excellence of our existing infrastructure on the AWS platform. The role involves day to day management of our AWS infrastructure, supporting and collaborating with software development teams, considering costs and implementing long‑term strategic projects to ensure our platform fits Arenko’s future needs.

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to design scalable and cost‑effective AWS cloud architectures.
• Implement infrastructure solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ECS, Lambda, etc.
• Take the lead on key projects, helping to define the appropriate architecture and deliver within timelines and cost constraints.

• Utilise Terraform to automate the provisioning, deployment, and management of infrastructure resources.
• Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate infrastructure deployments.
• Streamline operational tasks through scripting and automation, enhancing efficiency and reliability.
• Play a role in defining best practice, tooling and ways of working to ensure that we continuously improve.

• Monitor AWS infrastructure performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement optimisations for cost and performance.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions using AWS Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Grafana, and other monitoring tools.
• Conduct periodic reviews of infrastructure to identify opportunities for optimisation and cost reduction.

• Implement security best practices and compliance standards in AWS environments.
• Configure IAM roles, policies, and permissions to ensure least privilege access.

• Take the lead on key projects, managing stakeholders, gathering requirements and updating the business on progress.
• Help to facilitate team processes and meetings where appropriate, delegating for the Team Lead when needed.
• Mentor and guide less experienced team members, helping the whole team to grow and develop as engineers.

Here at Arenko, we appreciate every single employee and the values they bring to the company so you might be completely different to what we expected. That being said, here’s a few things we’d love you to tick the boxes on;

• You have proven experience in managing infrastructure with terraform on a cloud platform with an expert understanding of Terraform.
• You have excellent working knowledge of AWS, or other large cloud providers.
• You have a proven track record delivering large projects/improvements across complex Infrastructure deployments and platforms.
• You have good knowledge of security best practices with expertise in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• You’re experienced in containerisation using…