Platform Engineer II – Scalable Cloud & DevEx

Octoenergy; 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) with match

Parental leave

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Flexible working environment

Equity options

Job summary

Octopus Energy Group is seeking a Platform Engineer II to help design, build, and operate the core infrastructure enabling engineering teams. You will work with cloud-native services, automation, and scalable platforms to improve deployments, reliability, and developer experience.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, contribute to incident response, and own smaller projects while developing towards larger platform ownership. Medical, dental, vision, and equity benefits are included.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Cloud provider experience

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability/Monitoring

Automation

Security best practices

Distributed/cloud systems

RabbitMQ

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Linux

Networking basics

Multi-team collaboration

Data/IoT awareness

Observability practices

Proactive learning

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Datadog

RabbitMQ

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Linux

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Octopus Energy Group is seeking a Platform Engineer II to help design, build, and operate the core infrastructure enabling engineering teams. You will work with cloud-native services, automation, and scalable platforms to improve deployments, reliability, and developer experience.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, contribute to incident response, and own smaller projects while developing towards larger platform ownership. Medical, dental, vision, and equity benefits are included.