Senior TechOps Architect
Octopus EnergyLocation not specified
Full Time
Posted June 10, 2025
£90k - £115k
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Job Description
We’re really excited to be building a small, thoughtful and effective TechOps team at Octopus.
Key Responsibilities
- Define what good looks like for a small and lean TechOps team.
- Tackle some of the toughest technical issues as we scale to tens of thousands of people.
- Make wide-scale strategic technical decisions across the whole Octopus Energy Group, globally.
- Design, build and continually improve processes, automations and systems that will improve user experience, remove inefficiencies, allow us to scale quickly and keep our team small.
- Mentor the wider TechOps team, providing support and guidance for any technical project they may be working on. (This role will not involve directly managing people).
- Support the rest of the team in providing delightful day-to-day technical support to all areas of the business, to ensure our incredible employees are able to do their job as efficiently as possible. Their problems are our problems.
- Collaborate closely with our Security team to ensure we strike the right balance between security, productivity and user experience.
- Managing supplier relationships and the procurement process for SaaS and hardware.
- Lead and manage complex technical projects with multiple stakeholders from around the business.
- Rollout of, and migration to, a new identity provider mac OS and Windows MDM migration
- Rollout of a new device trust and posture compliance solution
- The replacement of insecure factors like SMS with phishing-resistant factors
- Office fit-outs, including tech like network infrastructure, AV and access control SaaS migrations for acquisitions, including Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace
Requirements
- Experience leading on a range of technical projects across various technologies and platforms.
- Experience with scripting, using APIs and automating mundane, error-prone repetitive tasks.
- To be comfortable with a huge amount of ambiguity and spinning a lot of plates all at the same time.
- Experience working with multiple teams and managing multiple stakeholders.
- Experience supporting, managing and deploying applications to macOS, Windows, iOS and Android devices.
- Understanding at the API level of Mobile Device Management systems and principles.
- Experience with modern Identity & Access Management systems, including Okta, Microsoft Entra, JumpCloud, PingIdentity.
- Experience administering and troubleshooting Single Sign-On (SSO) technologies such as OAuth, OIDC and SAML and Identity provisioning technologies such as SCIM.
- Understanding at a protocol level of Single Sign-On (SSO) and identity provisioning technologies such as OAuth, OIDC, SAML and SCIM
- Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical, senior stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring less experienced team members.
- A conscientious approach to everything you do and a passion for doing the right thing rather than the easy thing.
- Strong opinions on best practice and you challenge traditional norms, advocating for more modern, novel approaches.
- Experience with email gateway administration and email routing.
- Understanding of email security protocols and standards e.g. SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc.
- Experience using git and GitHub for code changes and CI/CD.
- Experience with Munki and AutoPkg for macOS software deployment
- Experience with Chocolatey and PowerShell for Windows software deployment
- A foundational understanding of programming and software engineering.
- Experience integrating different identity providers
- Familiarity with frontend and backend engineering, including languages such as TypeScript and Python, and frameworks such as React, Remix and Django.
- Familiarity with our security tooling - CrowdStrike EDR, Kolide, osquery, Zscaler
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