[Remote] Platform Engineer II

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 design, build, maintain, and operate scalable platform infrastructure and services, including cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and developer tooling. The role also involves incident response, collaboration with engineering teams, and progressively taking ownership of larger platform areas.

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 is required
• 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 other major cloud providers is nice to have
• 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

• Our company culture—an organization where people learn, decide, and build quicker, with autonomy and the opportunity to work alongside a wide range of co-owners on projects that break new ground.
• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees & their family.
• 20 days of paid vacation and 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 with genuine work-life balance.
• Equity Options Scheme—share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group.
• Development support including internal and external courses, learning, and study support, bespoke to you.

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