Platform Engineer II: Cloud Infra, CI/CD & Dev Experience

Octopus Energy; United States Virgin Islands; On-site; USD 118,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off (20 days vacation, 8 abs

401(k) with employer match

Parental leave

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Job summary

Octopus Energy in the United States seeks a Platform Engineer II to design and deliver scalable platform services, partnering with senior engineers to improve CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and developer experience. You’ll need hands-on AWS (EKS), Terraform, Docker, Python, and strong collaboration.

The role emphasizes reliability, automation, and cross-team impact, with a culture that values learning and autonomy.

Qualifications

• Solid communication skills and a collaborative approach.
• Hands-on experience with AWS is required, and exposure to other major cloud providers is nice to have
• Familiarity with security best practices and automation tools.
• Experience contributing to the operation of production systems, ideally in a distributed or cloud environment.

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

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Linux

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Job description

Octopus Energy in the United States seeks a Platform Engineer II to design and deliver scalable platform services, partnering with senior engineers to improve CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and developer experience. You’ll need hands-on AWS (EKS), Terraform, Docker, Python, and strong collaboration.

The role emphasizes reliability, automation, and cross-team impact, with a culture that values learning and autonomy.