Platform Engineer II: Cloud, CI/CD & Observability

NextGenEnergyJobs; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs is seeking engineers to contribute to platform services and deploy scalable solutions in a cloud-first environment. You will work with senior engineers to design and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience across core systems, including CI/CD and monitoring.

The role emphasizes collaboration, hands-on AWS experience, and a proactive learning mindset, with opportunities to grow into ownership of major platform areas.

Qualifications

• Proven collaboration in cross-team environments.
• Strong hands-on cloud experience and architecture understanding.
• Familiarity with security practices and automation.
• Experience operating production systems in distributed/cloud setups.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building and improving platform services, writing code, reviewing changes, and supporting deployments
• Work with senior engineers to design and implement scalable, reliable platform solutions
• Help maintain and operate core systems such as CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and monitoring
• Participate in incident response and retrospectives to drive learning and improvement
• Collaborate with engineers to translate needs into practical platform features
• Take ownership of tasks and small projects, with growth toward owning larger platform areas

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Security best practices

Automation tools

Distributed systems

Collaboration

Proactive learner

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NextGenEnergyJobs is seeking engineers to contribute to platform services and deploy scalable solutions in a cloud-first environment. You will work with senior engineers to design and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience across core systems, including CI/CD and monitoring.

The role emphasizes collaboration, hands-on AWS experience, and a proactive learning mindset, with opportunities to grow into ownership of major platform areas.