Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Octopus Energy is a technology-powered renewable energy company focused on improving energy services and customer experiences. The Platform Engineer II will help build, operate, and improve scalable platform services, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and developer tooling while collaborating with engineering teams and supporting incident response.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building and improving platform services, writing code, reviewing changes, and supporting deployments
- Work alongside senior engineers to design and implement solutions that improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience
- Help maintain and operate core systems such as CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and monitoring
- Participate in incident response and retrospectives, contributing to learning and improvement
- Collaborate with other engineers to understand needs and translate them into practical platform solutions
- Take ownership of tasks and smaller projects, while developing towards owning larger areas of the platform
Skills
- Solid communication skills and a collaborative approach
- Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider
- Familiarity with security best practices and automation tools
- Experience contributing to the operation of production systems, ideally in a distributed or cloud environment
- Docker and Kubernetes (we use Amazon EKS in production)
- Python or other scripting languages
- Datadog or similar monitoring/logging tools
- Messaging queues or event-driven systems (we use RabbitMQ)
- Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
- Networking basics
- PostgreSQL or another relational database
- Linux system administration basics
- Exposure to multi-team environments or shared platform services
- Interest in data-focused systems such as analytics, telemetry, or IoT
- Familiarity with CI/CD or observability practices beyond the basics
- A proactive mindset and enthusiasm for learning from more senior engineers
Benefits
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees & their family.
- 20 days of paid vacation annually.
- 8 paid sick days annually.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Parental leave. Biological, adoptive and foster parents are all eligible.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Flexible working environment.
- Equity Options Scheme — share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group.
- Support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc., all bespoke to you.
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