DevOps Engineer

Peak Energy•Burlingame, CA

About The Position

Peak Energy is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and scale the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and automation systems that support its grid-scale battery storage technology. As the company grows from pilot deployments to gigawatt-scale production, this role will establish infrastructure that helps engineering teams develop, test, and deploy software efficiently and reliably. This is a hands-on infrastructure engineering role focused on cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, database provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation. The engineer will build and maintain systems connecting development environments, manufacturing operations, and deployed battery systems to the cloud, collaborating with software, test, and manufacturing engineering teams to improve automation, reliability, and scalability.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a related technical role.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or equivalent tooling.
Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.
Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Experience deploying and managing cloud databases, including PostgreSQL or similar relational database systems.
Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages for infrastructure automation.
Experience with cloud networking, access management, monitoring, and infrastructure security.
Experience supporting software deployments and troubleshooting production infrastructure.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized application deployments.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Microsoft Azure services, including Azure Functions, Service Bus, Azure Monitor, or Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Experience with IoT device infrastructure and management.
Experience supporting automated testing infrastructure, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or engineering validation environments.
Familiarity with data ingestion pipelines, streaming infrastructure, or cloud-connected devices.
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or Application Insights.
Experience supporting manufacturing systems, industrial automation, IoT, or hardware-integrated software.
Familiarity with database administration, backup and recovery, and infrastructure performance optimization.
Prior experience building infrastructure and deployment processes in an early-stage or rapidly scaling engineering organization.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure for battery storage software, data pipelines, and engineering applications.
Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for software builds, testing, and deployment across development and production environments.
Define, provision, and manage cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, establishing scalable and repeatable infrastructure practices.
Partner with software and test engineering teams to integrate automated testing and validation into development and deployment workflows.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and observability.