Platform Engineer II — Cloud, CI/CD & Observability

Octopus Energy Group; Georgia; On-site; USD 118,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) match

Parental leave

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Flexible working

Equity options

Learning & development

Job summary

Octopus Energy Group is building a Global Platform Engineering team to design, deliver, and operate scalable systems for our energy platforms. You’ll work with engineers across services to improve automation, reliability, and developer experience on cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

The Platform Engineer II role emphasizes ownership, proactive problem solving, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to turn complex challenges into practical infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

• Solid communication and collaborative approach.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider.
• Familiarity with security best practices and automation tools.
• Experience operating production systems, ideally in distributed or cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to platform services, write code, review changes, and support deployments.
• Design and implement solutions to improve scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
• Maintain core systems such as CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and monitoring.
• Participate in incident response and retrospectives, contributing to learning and improvement.
• Collaborate with engineers to translate needs into practical platform solutions.
• Take ownership of tasks and smaller projects, with progression toward owning larger areas.

Skills

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Automation tooling

Docker & Kubernetes

Python scripting

Datadog monitoring

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Linux admin

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Octopus Energy Group is building a Global Platform Engineering team to design, deliver, and operate scalable systems for our energy platforms. You’ll work with engineers across services to improve automation, reliability, and developer experience on cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

The Platform Engineer II role emphasizes ownership, proactive problem solving, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to turn complex challenges into practical infrastructure solutions.