Platform Operations Engineer

Nrg Bluewater Wind; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NRG Energy is seeking a Platform Operations Engineer to coordinate production support, observability, and AI-enabled improvements across the Home Services technology stack. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, QA, and Platform teams to boost reliability and performance.

Responsibilities include managing incident response, configuring dashboards, and driving operational excellence through automation and standardized runbooks, while communicating platform health to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field and strong analytical abilities.
• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, IT Operations, DevOps, or related discipline.
• Experience with production applications in enterprise settings.
• Proven ability to coordinate cross-team production support and incidents.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting platforms.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate production support activities to ensure timely incident resolution and clear communication.
• Assist incident management with investigations, RCAs, corrective actions, and post‑incident follow‑ups.
• Coordinate readiness for releases, maintenance events, and platform changes.
• Develop and communicate dashboards, KPIs, and service performance metrics.
• Work with engineering teams to instrument, monitor, and alert across services.
• Lead AI-enabled operational workflows and automation improvements.
• Maintain runbooks and standard operating procedures for operational excellence.
• Collaborate with Platform Architects, Solution Engineers, QA, and Delivery teams.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Collaboration

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering

Equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

ServiceNow

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Datadog

Splunk

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Position Summary

The Platform Operations Engineeris responsible forcoordinating and improving the operational effectiveness of the Home Services technology platform. This role partners across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Quality Assurance, and Platform teams to improve platform reliability, operational visibility, and service performance through coordination, reporting, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

The Platform Operations Engineer supports production operations, operational reporting, environment coordination,monitoringand observability, and AI-enabled operational capabilities to ensure engineering teams have the visibility, processes, and operational support necessary to deliver reliable technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Production Support & Operations

Coordinate production support activities across Engineering, Product, and Platform teams tofacilitatetimelyincident resolution and effective communication.

Support incident management processes by coordinating investigations, root cause analysis activities, corrective actions, and post-incident follow-up with theappropriate engineeringteams.

Coordinate operational readiness activities for releases, maintenance events, and platform changes.

Track recurring operational issues and coordinate continuous improvement initiatives with responsible teams.

Operational Metrics & Performance

Develop,maintain, and communicate operational dashboards, KPIs, and service performance metrics.

Analyze operational data toidentifytrends, risks, and opportunities for operational improvement.

Coordinate recurring operational reviews and provide visibility into platform health, service levels, and operational performance.

Support the definition, measurement, and reporting of operationalobjectivesand service quality indicators.

Monitoring & Observability

Partner with engineering teams to ensureappropriate instrumentation, logging, monitoring, and alerting are implemented across platform services.

Identifygaps in observability and coordinate improvements with engineering teams.

Supportadoptionof monitoring standards and operational reporting practices that improve proactive issue detection and platform visibility.

Promote consistent telemetry and operational reporting across platform services.

Coordinate environment planning, scheduling, availability, andutilizationacross multiple

Facilitate environment requests, refreshes, deployments, and conflict resolution activities.

Maintain visibility intoenvironmentreadiness, dependencies, and operational risks.

Communicate environment status, planned activities, and potential impacts to stakeholders.

AI & Operational Innovation

Identifyopportunities toleverageAI and automation to improve production support, operational efficiency, and platform reliability.

Partner with engineering teams to implement AI-assisted operational workflows, monitoring, and support processes.

Support adoption of AI-enabled operational tools that improve issue detection, operational insights, knowledge management, and engineering productivity.

Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and recommend practical applications that enhance platform operations.

Operational Excellence

Support development and maintenance of operational documentation, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and knowledge resources.

Identifyopportunities to improve operational processes through automation and standardization.

Coordinate operational improvement initiatives that enhance platform reliability and support efficiency.

Support operational governance by providing reporting, metrics, and operational insights.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with Platform Architects, Solution Engineers, Engineering teams, Quality Assurance, and Delivery teams to improve operational effectiveness.

Coordinate cross-functional activities, dependencies, and communicationsimpactingplatform operations.

Provide visibility into operational risks, dependencies, and platform readiness to support informed decision-making.

Foster collaboration and continuous improvement to enhance operational maturity and service performance.

Required Skills & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, oran equivalentcombination of education and relevant work experience.

Five (5) or more years of experience in Platform Engineering, Application Support, IT Operations, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, ora relatedtechnical discipline.

Experience supporting mission-critical production applications within an enterprise environment.

Experience coordinating production support activities across multiple Engineering and business teams.

Experience developing,monitoring, and reporting operational KPIs, dashboards, and

Experience with application monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting platforms.

Experience coordinating environment management activities, including planning, release readiness, deployments, refreshes, and cross-team scheduling.

Experience supporting cloud platforms and enterprise applications, preferably Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.

Experience working with IT Service Management (ITSM) processes, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability toidentifytrends and recommend operational improvements.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.

Experience with enterprise operational tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, ServiceNow, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Datadog, Splunk, or similar platforms.

Experience applying AI, automation, or scripting to improve operational efficiency, monitoring, reporting, or support processes.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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