Pecan Street Inc. seeks a DevOps Engineer to be part of its award-winning team innovating solutions for intelligent energy management and drought mitigation. The selected candidate will work with the nation’s largest research database on customer electricity use, water consumption, solar panel generation and electric vehicle charging, joining a talented team that has deep experience in consumer electronics and software development.

The selected candidate will work out of Pecan Street’s state-of-the-art, green-built lab in Austin’s Mueller community and will be part of a passionate, dynamic team that work on a range of exciting programs in partnership with public and private entities.

About Pecan Street Inc.

Unlike any other organization, Pecan Street is focused on advancing university research and accelerating innovation in water and energy. We provide utilities, technology companies and university researchers access to the world’s best data on consumer energy and water consumption behavior, testing and verification of technology solutions, and commercialization services to help them bring their innovations to market faster. We help prepare technically-focused students for careers with industry, and we help them conduct research that will change the world.

The solution to our water and energy challenge will require a mixture of new technologies. But it will first require a detailed understanding of customers’ water and energy use behavior. Pecan Street’s research addresses technology and behavior and how the two interact. Our ambition is to provide the companies, researchers and organizations that will lead the way toward a more efficient, customer-driven energy and water system, with the research, analysis and insights they need to be successful.

With over 1 Petabyte of high speed computing systems and sophisticated National Instruments, Schneider and Intel product testing equipment, Pecan Street is an independent facility where companies of all sizes can develop, test and validate a wide range of products and services. The lab also houses Pecan Street’s secure data center, which powers Dataport – Pecan Street’s interactive web portal to access, visualize, analyze and discuss the organization’s unique data.

Primary Role

The DevOps Engineer will play an integral role in the Pecan Street team. Generally, the he/she will serve as an all-around collaborator to deploy and operate our systems. The position will report to CIO and will work closely with other members of the Data Group to ensure project milestones are achieved on schedule while representing Pecan Street’s standards of quality.

Primary Responsibilities

The engineer will have lead responsibility for the implementation, on-going management and support of Pecan Street’s applications and services, including:

• Web services and applications
• APIs
• Database support and maintence
• Server support and maintenece
• Hardware deployment

Experience and skills

Pecan Street seeks a candidate with:

• Experience in working with Linux
• Experience working with databases
• Experience working with Python
• Experience in scripting and programming