Cloud & Data Engineer
Help companies understand their impact on the environment by building tools to display environmental metrics and plans to improve them.
About the job
Green PRAXIS enables large companies to manage their natural assets in a sustainable way. We do this by combining ecological and data science within a single digital platform. We leverage a wide range of data sources to automatically generate environmental scores and diagnoses, explore multiple potential future scenarios and help the customer determine how to balance economic return with environmental imperatives. We focus on organisations managing major infrastructures such as transportation networks, energy facilities, industrial sites or urban areas. As a company with a mission, we help our customers reduce their environmental impact while lowering operating costs and improving their resilience in the face of climate change.
We are looking for a Cloud & Data Engineer to support these efforts. In this role you will support our back end infrastructure and perform data engineering tasks. In particular you will support, maintain and evolve our:
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AWS and other cloud services including networking, access management, security and resource management,
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Kubernetes computing infrastructure, SQL and noSQL databases and object stores,
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Github repo with CI/CD pipeline,
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Apache Airflow data orchestrator,
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Data pipelines, creating code for data gathering, cleaning, feature creation and storage across a wide range of use cases
Our data pipelines ingest from diverse sources including satellite & drone imagery, public APIs and filestores and deliver these our front end tools and our machine learning models. This collection of services helps our customers and operational teams to fully understand the characteristics of a target site, and calculate the impact of a range of plans on key environmental variables.
What we are looking for in you:
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Masters degree with concentration in computer science
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2+ years experience as a software engineer in a commercial environment or demonstration of strong individual initiative
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Strong interest in ecology and willingness to invest in building domain knowledge
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Skilled in Python with a strong understanding of APIs and web technologies
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Experience with cloud administration, ideally with an AWS or equivalent certification
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Willingness to work across a diverse range of technologies and tasks
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Continuous learning approach, always ready to introduce new ideas and technologies
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Ability to work with substantial autonomy
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Good communicator and collaborator
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Ability to communicate in both French & English at B2 level or above.
If this sounds like you, please get in touch!