• Power the future, together with ENGIE!
• Join our ENGIE Retail Digital team!
• Hybrid & located at our Freshwater Place office in Southbank

ENGIE is a global energy player with over 97,000 employees across more than 30 countries. All of our teams’ efforts are unified in support of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy, by providing innovative energy solutions to households, businesses and communities.

Our global ambition, as a pioneer of the renewable energy transition, is to champion carbon-neutral energies and achieve an affordable, reliable net-zero energy system by 2045.

Zero. You may think it’s nothing, but to us at ENGIE… zero is everything!

The opportunity:

Our retail energy business is at the forefront of low-carbon products, services and technologies, which help Australian households manage their energy bills and emissions.

Due to an internal move, we have a wonderful opportunity for an experienced technology professional with suitable experience to oversee testing and release management for the digital stack  in ENGIE Retail. You will report to the head of Digital Services and manage our vendor resources as well as one ENGIE team member, working in a collaborative and friendly team environment at our Freshwater place offices (hybrid).

You will have hands-on experience in both manual and automation testing and pride yourself on your ability to contribute to quality application deployments into production, in a timely fashion.

The Test and Release manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of quality across the Engie Retail product suite.

This role will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation, including senior management, to ensure that quality is upheld throughout all project lifecycles and BAU activities.

Responsibilities will include:

• Assist the enhancement and implementation of QA framework, processes, and governance standards
• Provide direction to teams on QA practices and ensure adherence to QA standards
• Manage vendor relationships and ensure quality control over vendors' deliverables.
• Drive the effective delivery and operation of testing-related tools to achieve standard outcomes and ROI.
• Conduct regular health checks and quality audits to maintain quality standards.
• Provide leadership and mentoring ensuring individual growth and development to Testing & Release Analyst
• Ensure that testing activities will allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Drive collaboration with project teams to ensure smooth and reliable delivery of testing services to fulfil project objectives, and delivery timelines

About you:

• Several years’ experience in application testing and deployment positions
• Familiarity with both automation and manual testing
• Excellent stakeholder management and business engagement skills
• Ability to prioritise and plan effectively multiple projects
• A passion for the energy sector and sustainability

Next Steps:
If this sounds like the role for you, we welcome your application.

All applicants must have unlimited rights to work in Australia.

Please note we consider applications on an ongoing basis and therefore encourage you to apply at your earliest opportunity.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, religion, marital status, health, disability or political opinions.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people of the LGBTIQA+ community are encouraged to apply. Our differences are our strengths!

Job Title:  Software Engineer (Python) 

Department: Digital 

Reporting line:  Software Engineering Manager 

Location: Kampala or Nairobi 

About ENGIE Energy Access  

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.  

www.engie-energyaccess.com    

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa  

Job Purpose/Mission   

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our digital team and help us to deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in the Rails world and if you want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us. 

This position offers a great opportunity to directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. You will work closely with our stakeholders and users in Africa and beyond. 

Our small, self-organized, distributed team (Kampala / Berlin / Nairobi) develops the backbone of our operations, which we also provide to other businesses in the PAYGo sector as Software as a Service – see https://paygee.com. 

Responsibilities  

• Participate in the software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations such as technical debt, feasibility at scale etc.  

• Own initiative and complete it from start to finish, provide guidance to other engineers and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with no supervision.  

• Represent technical team in business conversations in a range of scopes and work closely with stakeholders to deliver solutions which fit the needs of the business and provide fairly accurate effort estimates and risk assessment  

• Participate in Peer-Review, identify and document technical debt and contribute to delivering high quality software solutions  

• Participate and strongly contribute to architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, technical debt, assumptions, etc.  

• Contribute to change of processes, adoption of best industry practices and mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance  

• Provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems) 

Knowledge and skills    

Experience:  

• 5 years of practical experience in software engineering of which at least 2 years in senior or lead role  

• Programming language proficiency in Python and front-end/JavaScript frameworks  

• Proven track record of building quality software with TDD  

• Strong knowledge of software engineering design and architectural patterns   

• Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications with high availability, observability and structured logging  

• API design to scale in Python 

• Good knowledge of object relational mappers and their implementation design patterns  

• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring  

• Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)  

• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

Good to have experience   

• Experience in developing large production grade web applications with python, java or Go 

• Forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business 

• Strong foundation on distributed systems 

• Knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes 

• Server backend management experience (Linux, MySQL, Puma, Apache, Nginx, etc.) 

• Good knowledge on application security 

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions 

Qualifications:  

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science are preferred) 

Language(s):   

• English  

• French is a plus  

 Our Technology Stack:  

• Web framework: Django, Flask 

• Background task: Celery, RabbitMQ 

• Front-end: Angular 

• API: FastAPI, DRF, flask 

• TDD: Pytest, Locust 

• Search: Sphinx 

• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis 

• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD 

• Deployment: k8s, terraform, helm, Ansible 

• Fresh Ideas Always welcome! 

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.   

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!   

Job Title:  Software Engineer (Cloud native) 

Department: Digital 

Reporting line:  Software Engineering Manager 

Location: Kampala or  Nairobi 

About ENGIE Energy Access  

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.  

www.engie-energyaccess.com    

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa  

Job Purpose/Mission   

EEA is looking for a talented, self-starting tech lead to join the team to help deliver affordable solar power and financial services across Africa. This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale and lead the evolution of at least one of our software products. 

Responsibilities  

• Define software engineering strategy and architecture with other leaders, fully responsible for the technical evolution of at least one software product, responsible for the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) from ideation to deployment 

• Implement and optimize microservices and RESTful APIs to ensure scalability and ease of integration for cloud-based applications. 

• Architect and implement solutions that cater to multi-tenant environments, ensuring tenant isolation, efficient resource utilization, and data security. 

• Develop scalable data partitioning and tenant onboarding solutions to manage multiple tenants seamlessly while maintaining high performance. 

• Ensure proper configuration and management of tenant-level security, quotas, and SLAs. 

• Develop and deploy applications using Docker containers to ensure consistency across multiple environments (development, staging, production). 

• Use Kubernetes to orchestrate containerized workloads, enabling horizontal scaling, high availability, and automated deployments in multi-tenant architectures. 

• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters for tenant-aware scaling, load balancing, and service discovery. 

• Build and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines (using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI) to enable continuous integration and continuous deployment across multiple environments. 

• Integrate automated testing, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure early detection of issues and smooth rollouts. 

• Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and other progressive delivery techniques to reduce downtime and minimize risks during deployments in multi-tenant setups. 

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, ensuring the infrastructure supports the demands of multi-tenant applications. 

• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to automate provisioning and scaling of infrastructure. 

• Ensure that the cloud environment is configured for cost-efficiency, elasticity, and fault tolerance while maintaining strict adherence to security and compliance standards. 

• Implement and manage monitoring and alerting systems (using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic) to track application performance, usage, and tenant-specific metrics. 

• Proactively monitor and troubleshoot production issues, ensuring high availability and uptime for multi-tenant applications. 

• Conduct root cause analysis on system failures or performance degradation and implement necessary optimizations or patches. 

• Continuously optimize application performance to support the scalability demands of multiple tenants, ensuring low latency and high throughput. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, product management, QA, and other software engineers, to align on requirements, technical specifications, and deliverables. 

• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers to improve overall code quality and team productivity. 

• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in cloud-native development, containerization, Kubernetes, and multi-tenant architecture. 

Knowledge and skills    

Experience:  

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on cloud-native development. 

• Proficiency in Python and Ruby web frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra). 

• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration in production environments. 

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in a multi-tenant architecture. 

• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and distributed systems. 

• Cloud Platforms: Expertise in AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, including services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, etc. 

• Version Control: Proficiency in Git and branching strategies for multi-tenant development. 

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar tools. 

• Testing: Proficiency in automated testing frameworks (e.g., RSpec for Ruby, PyTest for Python) and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines. 

• Monitoring: Experience with application performance monitoring (APM) tools (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic). 

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a passion for building scalable and reliable systems. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams. 

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile development environment. 

Nice to Have 

• Experience with multi-tenant architecture in a SaaS environment. 

• Familiarity with serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions). 

• Knowledge of GraphQL APIs and their integration with multi-tenant systems. 

• Understanding of security best practices in cloud-native applications, including IAM roles, data encryption, and secrets management 

Qualifications:  

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science preferred) or comparable 

Language(s):   

• English  

• French is a plus  

 Our Technology stack:  

• Web framework: Rails 5 , Django, flask, fastapi 

• Mobile: Android Kotlin/Java 

• Background task: Sidekiq , Celery, RabbitMQ 

• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular  

• API: Grape, Devise , DRF, FastApi 

• TDD: RSpec , PyTest 

• Search: Thinking Sphinx  

• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis  

• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD  

• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible  

• Fresh Ideas Always welcome! 

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.   

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!   

Job Title:  Software Quality Assurance Lead

Department: Digital

Reporting line: Head of Software Engineering

Location: Kampala or Nairobi

Job Grade: HL15

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com  

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose/Mission 

EEA is looking for an experienced Software Quality Assurance (QA) Lead to oversee and drive the quality assurance strategy for both web and mobile applications in a multi-tenant architecture. As a QA Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team of QA engineers, developing comprehensive testing strategies, and ensuring that our applications meet the highest standards of quality, performance, and security across multiple tenants.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and DevOps, to establish quality metrics, testing methodologies, and automation frameworks that will enable us to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable software and directly contribute to

the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale and lead the evolution of at least one of our software products.

Responsibilities

· Leadership & Team Management:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers, ensuring clear goals, performance tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the recruitment, onboarding, and training of QA team members.
• Foster a collaborative and proactive team culture focused on delivering high-quality software.

· Quality Assurance Strategy:

• Design and implement comprehensive QA strategies for multi-tenant web and mobile applications, covering functional, performance, security, and regression testing.
• Ensure the creation and maintenance of detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Establish and monitor key QA metrics (e.g., defect rates, code coverage, test execution time, etc.) to track and improve software quality over time.

· Test Automation:

• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks to ensure efficient regression testing and fast feedback in CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure appropriate levels of test coverage, including integration, API, and UI automation across both web and mobile platforms.
• Identify and implement tools and frameworks for test automation that align with the needs of multi-tenant applications.

· Manual and Exploratory Testing:

• Manage manual testing efforts for complex or high-risk areas of the application that require human insight.
• Perform exploratory testing to identify edge cases, usability issues, and unanticipated defects.

· Collaboration & Communication:

• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps to understand requirements, clarify acceptance criteria, and ensure the QA process is integrated into the development lifecycle.
• Evaluation and/or authoring of UAT together with product managers and provide necessary support to business stakeholders.

· Continuous Improvement:

• Implement continuous testing practices to provide feedback on software quality early in the development cycle.
• Stay updated with the latest QA methodologies, tools, and best practices, and integrate them into the team’s processes.
• Work to reduce release cycle times by optimizing testing processes and increasing automation coverage.

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports.

We believe that great leaders:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an environment enabling effective action and bold decisions which contribute to successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Knowledge and skills 

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Experience with both web and mobile applications (iOS and Android) testing, including experience working with multi-tenant architectures.
• Strong experience in automated testing frameworks (Selenium, Appium, Cypress, etc.).
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including functional, performance, and security testing.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into CI workflows (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI).
• Experience in API testing using tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems like Git and project management tools like Jira.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, with a track record of building and leading high-performing QA teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across functional teams.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong attention to detail.

Nice to have:

• Experience with load testing and performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling) is a strong advantage.
• Strong knowledge of multi-tenant systems, including tenant isolation and data segregation requirements is a plus.
• Experience with cloud environments (e.g., AWS) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with security testing tools (e.g., OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite).
• Experience with performance monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Sentry, Zabbix).

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science preferred) or comparable

Language(s): 

• English
• French is a plus

Our Technology stack:

• Web framework: Rails 5 , Django, flask, fastapi
• Mobile: Android Kotlin/Java
• Background task: Sidekiq , Celery, RabbitMQ
• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular
• API: Grape, Devise , DRF, FastApi
• TDD: RSpec , PyTest
• Search: Thinking Sphinx
• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis
• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD
• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible
• Fresh Ideas Always welcome!

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!

Job Title:  Software Engineering Manager 

Department: Digital 

Reporting line:  Head of Software Engineering 

Location: Berlin 

Job Grade: 17 

About ENGIE Energy Access  

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.  

www.engie-energyaccess.com    

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa  

Job Purpose/Mission   

EEA is looking for a talented, self-starting tech lead to join the team to help deliver affordable solar power and financial services across Africa. This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale and lead the evolution of at least one of our software products. 

Responsibilities  

• Line management of a sub-set of the software development team (4-6 direct reports). 

• Contract management with external developers(freelancers) in collaboration with Head of Software Engineering 

• Work with engineering tech-lead to put in place clear performance management framework and provide actionable feedback and goals for the technical team 

• Grow and develop software engineers 

• establish upskilling and training path, growth path 

• Structured coaching and mentorship plan 

• Institute processes to address performance gaps and ensure the team is technically competent 

• Together with tech-lead, ensure effective onboarding of new engineers 

• Recruit software team for their pillar and maintain a pipeline of candidates 

• Together with tech leads, resource Management to align with key delivery milestones 

• Actively participate and understand the ROI of engineering efforts, understand the value creation and the priorities to the business.  

• Contributing to team culture (within the product team and broader digital team) 

• Communication 

• Technical excellence and knowledge sharing 

• Team bonding 

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports.   

We believe that great leaders:  

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an environment enabling effective action and bold decisions which contribute to successful delivery of results.  

• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.  

• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.  

• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.  

• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.  

Knowledge and skills    

Experience:  

• At least 7 years of relevant experience of which 2 is in leadership role, with proven track record of leading a high performing engineering team 

• Experience in resource management and capacity planning 

• Practical and thorough understanding of the various software development methodologies, their application in different contexts and trade-offs 

• Experience in hiring, onboarding and maintaining pipeline of engineers. Demonstrated ability to create suitable conditions to retain talent 

• Knowledge of developer productivity tools and performance frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx..) in the software space 

• Ability to identify and address process gaps, culture issues and conflicts  

• Hands-on, senior level competency of full-stack software development using relevant front and backend frameworks 

• Entrepreneurial and forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business 

• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring 

• Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD) 

• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals  

Qualifications:  

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science preferred) or comparable 

Language(s):   

• English  

• French is a plus  

 Our Technology stack:  

• Web framework: Rails 5 , Django, flask, fastapi 

• Mobile: Android Kotlin/Java 

• Background task: Sidekiq , Celery, RabbitMQ 

• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular  

• API: Grape, Devise , DRF, FastApi 

• TDD: RSpec , PyTest 

• Search: Thinking Sphinx  

• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis  

• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD  

• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible  

• Fresh Ideas Always welcome! 

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.   

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!   

What You Can Expect

As the Senior Network Engineer in Houston, Texas, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for creating, delivering, and managing enterprise IT and OT networking solutions for the North America  Region. Every day, you will report to the IT Network Operations Manager coordinating with ENGIE’s global infrastructure team to ensure enterprise networking standards are deployed in the North America Region.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience as a network engineer

• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in designing and supporting large-scale enterprise and ICS/SCADA network
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in supporting a 1,000 nodes corporate network environment
• One or more industry certifications in different technologies disciplines (such as, Azure, AWS, Cisco, Fortinet, Security) is beneficial to the success of the role
• In-depth knowledge in design and manage networking and security components across multiple public clouds (Such as AWS and Azure) and on-Premises Data Center.
• Expert in Enterprise Core Networking technologies (LAN, WAN, VPN, SDWAN, Firewall, Network Load balancing, 4/5G Wireless, and WIFI.
• In-depth knowledge in Networking Protocol (Proxy, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, BOOTP, 802.1x, 802.1Q,  BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VPN, Ethernet, VLAN, Spanning-Tree)
• Expert in the operations, IT Security, disaster recovery, monitor, optimization, and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows Server environment in an enterprise-scale network
• Working knowledge of general IT technologies (Azure AD, Active Directory, Authentication, OKTA, O365/Email, Window Workstation and Server, VMware, IaaS, PaaS)

Additional Details

• This role is 100% onsite; with the ability to travel 40% of the time including overnight stays
• Must possess a valid U.S. driver’s license/clean driving record
• Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies

Compensation

Salary Range: $84,000 – $128,800 USD annually

This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate.

Actual offered salary may depend on geography, experience, industry knowledge, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors. 

In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for a competitive bonus / incentive plan.

Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location

At ENGIE, we take your well-being seriously. Our comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, ESPP, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs. We also help you plan for retirement by offering a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match.  But that's not all – we're dedicated to the health and happiness of your entire family, offering supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits. Explore our benefits package to see how we can support you. Learn more.

Why ENGIE?

ENGIE North America isn’t just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we’re leading it!  Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone.  

At ENGIE, our goal is to support, promote, and thrive on diversity, equity, and inclusion.  We do so for the benefit of our employees, customers, products and services, and community.  ENGIE is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we are firmly committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees.

We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

If you need assistance with this application or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at ENGIENA-ENGIEHR@engie.com. This email address is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry regarding positions or application status.

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at any time.

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Job Title:  Software Engineer (Rails) 

Department: Digital & IT

Reporting line:  Software Engineering Manager 

Location: Kampala or Nairobi 

About ENGIE Energy Access  

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.  

www.engie-energyaccess.com    

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa  

Job Purpose/Mission   

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our digital team and help us to deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in the Rails world and if you want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us. 

This position offers a great opportunity to directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. You will work closely with our stakeholders and users in Africa and beyond. 

Our small, self-organized, distributed team (Kampala / Berlin / Nairobi) develops the backbone of our operations, which we also provide to other businesses in the PAYGo sector as Software as a Service – see https://paygee.com. 

Responsibilities  

• Participate in the software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations such as technical debt, feasibility at scale etc.  

• Take well specified tasks and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies with minimal to no supervision.  

• Represent technical team in business conversations for specific assigned scope and provide effort estimates, risk assessment and coordinate technical implementation  

• Participate in Peer-Review, contribute to delivering high quality software solutions  

• Contribute to technical documentation  

• Provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems) 

Knowledge and skills    

Experience:  

• 3 years of practical experience in software engineering  

• Programming language proficiency in Ruby and Rails and front-end/JavaScript frameworks  

• Proven track record of building quality software with TDD  

• Good knowledge of object relational mappers and their implementation design patterns  

• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring  

• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

Good to have experience   

• Experience in developing large production grade web applications 

• Knowledge of software engineering design and architectural patterns 

• Forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business 

• Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD) 

• Knowledge of container orchestration 

• Server backend management experience (Linux, MySQL, Puma, Apache, Nginx, etc.) 

• Good knowledge on application security 

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions 

Qualifications:  

• Bachelors in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science are preferred) 

Language(s):   

• English  

• French is a plus  

 Our Technology Stack:  

• Web framework: Rails 5 

• Background task: Sidekiq 

• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular 

• API: Grape, Devise 

• TDD: RSpec 

• Search: Thinking Sphinx 

• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis 

• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD 

• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible 

• Fresh Ideas Always welcome! 

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.   

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!   

Nuestro Grupo es una referencia mundial en energía y servicios bajos en carbono. Junto con nuestros 96.000 empleados, nuestros clientes, socios y partes interesadas, estamos comprometidos en acelerar la transición hacia una economía neutra en carbono, a través de la reducción del consumo energético y soluciones más respetuosas con el medio ambiente.

Misión: 

Se encargará de diseñar, implementar, gestionar y optimizar los sistemas y servicios basados en la nube

Funciones principales:

• Revisar la infraestructura tecnológica de una organización y realizar las migraciones necesarias a la nube.
• Vigilar el rendimiento de los sistemas basados en la nube y realizar mejoras cuando sea necesario. Así como la protección de la actividad en caso de problemas de seguridad, incluyendo la protección de los datos de la empresa en la nube.
• Elaborar de manera adecuada varios procesos, incluyendo sistemas informáticos, de red y de seguridad. Así como funcionalidades y aplicaciones que faciliten al personal acceder a las herramientas basadas en la nube.
• Asesorar al personal y las partes implicadas para que aprendan a utilizar de manera apropiada la tecnología basada en la nube.
• Participar y realizar en planes de recuperación ante posibles caídas de los sistemas. Así como en la gestión de las redes en la nube.
• Revisar posibles problemas en la carga de las aplicaciones.
• Monitorizar los sistemas y crear alertas para detectar o prevenir fallos.
• Conocer los servicios que la nube provee y usarlos en el diseño de las aplicaciones. Migrando aplicaciones locales y otros servicios informáticos a la nube.
• Informar y realizar políticas de ahorro de costes en la nube conociendo cómo sacar el máximo provecho a los servicios con el mínimo coste.
• Participar la implementación y cumplimiento de las Políticas de Seguridad e Higiene, Diversidad, Ciberseguridad, Medio Ambiente, Sostenibilidad, Ética y Compliance, así como de los procedimientos y procesos definidos en la organización.
• Asesorar y desarrollar el equipo humano asignado, maximizando su contribución a la organización. Colaborar en la definición e implementación de la Cultura Corporativa.
• Estas funciones podrán ser realizadas en su totalidad, o parcialmente, por los ocupantes de este puesto, sin perjuicio de cualquier otra que se le pudiese encomendar de acuerdo con su cualificación, formación y experiencia.

Requisitos:

• Grado en Informática de Sistemas, Telecomunicaciones o equivalente en titulación o grado superior FP con experiencia demostrable superior +7Y en este campo.
• Experiencia como Administrador CLOUD (+5Y)
• Conocimientos consolidados en administración de plataformas CLOUD
• Conocimientos en sistemas digitales: Comunicaciones, SSOO, BBDD, Ciberseguridad, y Gestión de Identidades.
• Valorable Certificaciones CLOUD
• Inglés Intermedio- Alto

Comprometidos con la inclusión:

En ENGIE valoramos y fomentamos la diversidad y la inclusión. Estamos comprometidos a acelerar la transición a una economía neutral en carbono lograda mediante la integración de individuos excepcionales y diversos que buscan, apoyan y fortalecen el crecimiento de los demás.

¿Qué proporcionamos?

• Te proporcionaremos planes de formación adaptados a tus necesidades e intereses.
• Tendrás un horario flexible y un sistema de trabajo híbrido + jornadas reducidas durante el verano y los viernes.
• Tendrás la oportunidad de adherirte al sistema de retribución flexible (tarjeta de transporte, ticket guardería, formación, ticket restaurante, seguro de salud, entre otros).
• Formarás parte de un equipo dinámico en el que realmente te desarrollarás y crecerás como profesional.
• Trabajarás con un equipo multidisciplinar que te apoyará en todo momento.
• Formarás parte de una red de más de 100.000 profesionales que trabajan para crear un mundo más sostenible.

ENGIE es la respuesta si...

• Buscas un proyecto profesional sólido y con proyección profesional.
• Valoras formar parte del primer grupo energético independiente del mundo.
• Quieres crecer y desarrollarte dentro de una compañía dinámica y retadora.
• Si consideras que tu trabajo, sumado al esfuerzo de las personas que forman parte de la compañía, puede y debe tener un reflejo positivo en el entorno.
• Si quieres formar parte de un grupo internacional, capaz de ofrecer una amplia variedad de puestos de trabajo dentro de un sector dinámico y prometedor, ¡te esperamos!

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