IT Infrastructure Lead

We have an excellent opportunity for an IT Infrastructure Lead to maintain, support, and enhance the IT infrastructure of this highly successful energy analytics consultancy. To be successful in this role you will need to ensure the performance, resilience, and reliability of the company's Infrastructure and Systems across a growing global business. With a solid focus on networking, the IT Infrastructure Lead will manage Aurora's connectivity, routers, switches, and firewalls. The role will also involve management of Windows and Linux servers, largely based in AWS. The IT Infrastructure Lead will be the point of escalation for 3rd line support queries from the service desk and will be a friendly and approachable member of the IT team. You should be able to work independently and be flexible to changing deadlines. You will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our organization's IT infrastructure. We have exciting plans for our infrastructure in areas like Zero-Trust, SASE, automation, as well as modernizing our IT infrastructure to support a rapidly expanding global business. This is a great opportunity for someone with the technical skills, drive, and vision to make a real impact on the way we use technology across the business.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the Product Lead for Aurora's flexibility-related analysis across Europe, focusing primarily on flexibility market analysis, battery costs and technology performance and revenue modelling and benchmarking.
• Author our flagship European Battery Markets Attractiveness Report, as well as support new product development in the flexibility area.
• Analyse pan-European policy and market trends as they relate to flexible technologies and support country teams to quantify their impact on national power market price formation.
• Work closely with country analytics teams to assess and synthesise quantitative metrics from their power market models and derive actionable insights for internal or external use.
• Support regular benchmarking of key flexibility technology-related inputs to models across the Aurora business, including battery technology costs, degradation, cycling and oversizing assumptions, and novel flexibility technologies.
• Undertake Advisory-type engagements from time to time, by engaging with clients to thoroughly understand their requirements and scoping and delivering quantifiable analyses, supported by Aurora's power market modelling where appropriate.
• Draw insights out of the analysis you produce and communicate findings to internal and external clients by creating compelling presentations.
• Contribute to Aurora's product development, by identifying new opportunities, supporting business development activities and expanding the team's capabilities.
• Line manage at least one junior staff member and mentor and develop junior staff generally, including graduates.

Required attributes

• At least 3 years of experience at a leading consultancy, energy company, investment bank, or other knowledge-driven firm or institution (e.g. think tank, research or university institute).
• Sound experience and understanding of the fundamentals of power markets and of low carbon flexibility technologies in particular.
• A very good university degree in either: a quantitative subject, coupled with a keen interest in policy developments; or a social science, environmental studies or a related field, coupled with several years' experience in quantitative analysis.
• A proven ability to collect, analyse and interpret complex quantitative data and information.
• An ability to communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical parties.
• Demonstrated success in project and process management in team-oriented environments.
• Proficiency (C1 level) in English.

Desirable attributes

• Experience with low carbon flexibility technologies in the context of project or corporate financing.
• Proficiency (C1 level) in at least one further European language besides English.

What we offer

• The opportunity to substantially influence major decisions in the energy sector.
• Direct engagement with clients through Aurora conferences, workshops and webinars.
• The opportunity to grow into a publicly visible industry expert.
• A fun, informal and international work culture.
• A competitive salary package.
• Company Benefits program including public transport subsidies, bike leasing and more.
• Access to the Aurora Academy, our training programme offering a range of opportunities to develop your skills.
• At Aurora we will consider all requests for flexible working. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: a hybrid model of remote and in-office working, part-time hours and flexible start and finish times.

Applications

The successful candidate would start as soon as possible. We will review applications as they are received. Salary will be competitive with experience. To apply, please submit your CV, brief cover letter, salary expectations, and earliest possible start date.

About Aurora

From its academic roots, Aurora Energy Research has grown to be the largest dedicated power market analytics company in Europe, providing data-driven intelligence to drive strategic decisions in the global energy transformation. We are a diverse team of experts with vast energy, financial, and consulting backgrounds, covering power, hydrogen, carbon, and fossil commodities. We are active across the globe in the APAC, LATAM, EMEA, and NORAM regions, working with leading organisations to provide comprehensive market intelligence, bespoke analytic and advisory services, and cutting-edge software. We are a thriving, rapidly growing company, currently serving over 600 of the world's most influential energy sector participants, including utilities, investors, and governments, and we expect to continue to grow rapidly, adding new countries and products to our portfolio.