Director of Technical Operations, Sylvera
Plus equity
Software underpinning carbon markets
Job no longer available
Software underpinning carbon markets
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Plus equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make carbon offsets work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Has significant experience with Terraform within an AWS infrastructure environment (ECS/EKS/K8s) with a desire to drive further sophistication of the infrastructure in question
- Has experience with monitoring solutions - e.g. Cloudwatch, Datadog, Zabbix, Prometheus
- Has experience with high availability and scalable solutions
- Possesses knowledge about AWS/Cloud/Security to drive best practices
- Has significant experience in making trade-off decisions to create InfoSec strategies
- Has experience having owned and driven improvements of DevOps/SRE processes (i.e., on-call, incident management)
- Has a track record bootstrapping an IT function in a startup environment, making the right calls to lay down a strong foundation for future growth
- Is a “doer” who is comfortable taking ownership of deliverables when needed
- Enjoys partnering with the wider engineering function and is able to communicate technical considerations with extreme clarity
- Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earthIs a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, with startup experience
- We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward
- We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a mission-driven Director of Technical Operations to join our Tech function, reporting directly to our CTO
- You will play a vital role in shaping our IT / Infosec organisation and practices, as well as ensuring we are delivering best-in-class infrastructure in the cloud and on-premises for our engineering, ML and science teams
- Leading our awesome Site Reliability and Developer Experience team of 3 engineers
- Building our IT function from scratch to deliver a compelling experience to all Sylverans, including vendor evaluation and negotiation, outsourcing, etc
- Scaling up our DevOps/SRE processes, leading on initiatives like on-call, and incident management
- Strengthening our InfoSec strategy - considering trade-offs between different compliance approaches to identify the best path for Sylvera and implementing it
- Assessing the effectiveness of our on-prem infrastructure and associated developer experience with a view to unlock its full potential while remaining cost-effective
- Contributing hands on to the design and development of our cloud infrastructure and monitoring of our performance metrics
- Raising the bar in terms of infrastructure change management and integrity, developing processes for testing infrastructure changes in partnership with the engineering team
- Assisting and unblocking the engineering team with infrastructure problems
- Owning the delivery of tasks and epics and refining our Agile ways of working
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Sylvera is scaling carbon markets with software, by developing tools to quantify stocks of carbon stored in vegetation using AI applied to satellite or drone data.
Using current quantification techniques, it is not possible to provide accurate and regular data on the performance of forestry projects, which leads to issues with corruption, fraud and uncertainty. This leads to significant financial and reputational risk for corporates purchasing offsets and makes it hard for high quality forest projects to secure fair prices and low cost finance at large scale.
By providing a quantitative sequestration audit trail and associated risk ratings, Sylvera intends to underpin effective voluntary carbon markets. This will allow the market to scale to keep the planet under 2C of warming, and unlock huge co benefits for nature and society.
Insights
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279% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"Sylvera's mission to bring transparency to the Voluntary Carbon Market leveraging data and expertise is a privilege to be a part of -- being able to..."
Company benefits
- Unlimited Holiday
- Christmas Shut Down
- Private Medical & Life insurance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Monthly Friday lunch budget
- Team social budgets
- One-off WFH allowance
- Enhanced Paid Sick Leave
- Mental Health support
Company values
- Own it - We believe in giving people the autonomy to own their impact
- Stay curious - Our business is built on revealing truths and debunking misperceptions
- Do What’s Right, Even When It’s Hard - The right path isn’t always easy or obvious
- Collaborate with Kindness - Great teams are built on open communication and respect
Company HQ
London, UK
Founders
Allister Furey
(CEO)Allister is a repeat entrepreneur with a PhD in Machine Learning and an MBA from London Business School. As well as 10 years developing technology in the renewables industry, he has built and operated business units in Asia, Continental Europe and the UK
Samuel Gill
(President)Sam started his career in the City working for top U.S. law firms. He specialised in the formation and regulation of Investment Funds, working on a number of high-profile launches. More recently, he focused on ESG products, and has advised on major carbon offset issuances
People progressing
Felix joined us at a Carbon Markets & Commercial Strategy Intern. He's created incredible impact, and has since been promoted 3 times to Commercial Operations & Strategy Manager.
Jess joined us as a Senior GIS Engineer and has since seen 3 subsequent promotions. Jess is now our VP Ratings.
Diversity & Inclusion at Sylvera
Jen Burry (Head of Talent)
- We have launched a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee, to continue to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company while constantly learning with a humble attitude. We have team members focused across the following pillars to establish a baseline and track progress
- Recruitment: Attract great talent and increase the pool of diverse candidates at all levels
- Training: Develop a training library intended to build inclusive behaviours and DEI competency
- Lifecycle metrics: Use data and metrics to track progress across all DEI pillars
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Create and support employee resources groups to foster representation, inclusion, and belonging
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