About Us
We are a climate analytics nonprofit established in 2021. We provide system modelling data, software and analysis to support energy transition planning decision-making. We are entirely grant-funded by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, Google.org, Sequoia Climate Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, European Climate Foundation, among others. Our data, software and analysis is used by developers, financiers, planners and think tanks internationally.
About the Role
TransitionZero is seeking a Data Infrastructure Engineer contractor to support the development and maintenance of our Data Platform which supports our flagship model builder, and data-explorer products.
In this role, you will:
- Develop and optimise our GCP platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and security
- Data Platform SDK and data infrastructure/pipelines, promoting automation and best practice
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and deliver scalable and custom solutions
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience building new CI/CD workflows, ideally using Github
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, ideally Terraform
- Strong SQL and Python ability with experience in Airflow
- Experience with AWS or Google Cloud
- Strong knowledge of Data Management principles in a Data/ Lakehouse Architecture
- Understanding of SQL-first transformation workflows using eg dbt or dataform
Qualifications
Degree-level qualifications in software engineering OR a STEM degree with software development experience (3+ years).
