Senior Platform Engineer

OverviewOctopus Energy started with a bold idea: to build Britain’s first truly digital energy supplier. By combining world-class tech with brilliant humans who care deeply about customers and driving the renewable energy transition, we became Britain’s largest energy supplier. We are scaling fast and building the next generation of products to accelerate the green energy transition, including making it effortless to switch to heat pumps, solar and EVs, launching smart tariffs, and creating renewable generation at scale. We’re also enabling our global businesses to roll out learnings, products and experiences that customers love here worldwide.At Octopus Tech, you’ll have real ownership, variety, and the chance to shape products that make a tangible difference in people’s lives – lowering bills, enabling greener living, and delivering experiences customers genuinely love. You’ll work side by side with teams across marketing, operations, and data, and see the impact of your work in the real world, fast.Our Global Platform Engineering team is responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining the core infrastructure, tooling, and services that enable our engineering teams to deliver at scale safely and reliably.As a Senior Platform Engineer within this newly created team you’ll be able to take ownership of key platform areas, shaping how we build and operate infrastructure across the Octopus Energy Group. You’ll design and implement scalable solutions, mentor engineers and collaborate closely with teams to understand their needs and translate them into platform capabilities - from cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to observability and developer experience.You’ll bring a strong bias towards automation and scale, with a deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure best practices, balancing pragmatism with long-term thinking. Thriving in an environment that welcomes continuous improvement and new ideas, your communication skills and attention to detail will be indispensable as you turn complex challenges into simple, scalable solutions that strengthen the foundation for all engineering teams.If this sounds exciting, we’d love to chat.What you’ll doDeliver platform services and improvements through the whole software delivery lifecycle, including coding, peer reviews, testing, and deployments.Take ownership of key technical areas, influencing design and implementation for platform services used across the groupContribute to technical decisions that affect multiple teams, balancing long-term vision with pragmatic deliveryCollaborate closely with engineering teams, communicating technical concepts clearly and constructivelySupport incident response, participate in retrospectives, and contribute to improving operational practicesProactively identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and scale platform servicesProvide guidance and mentorship to less experienced engineers, sharing knowledge and best practices.What you\'ll haveGreat communication skills, working effectively with developers, product managers and other business stakeholders to understand, design and deliver impactful projects and reliability improvementsPrevious experience working in small, highly-autonomous teamsProficient using AWS; we use a lot of different AWS services and not just the standard fewGood expertise in multiple of the following areas:Docker and Kubernetes; we use Amazon EKS in productionDatadog, or a similar logging/monitoring toolMessaging queues, event-driven async processing or similar technologies - we use RabbitMQPostgreSQL, or a similar RDBMSPython development experience or equivalentNetworking and DNSTerraform or a similar infrastructure-as-code toolExperience with a Linux distributionBonus points forExperience working in environments where shared platform services support multiple teams or productsInterest in cross-team collaborationAwareness of security, compliance, or reliability considerations in regulated industriesSome exposure to data-heavy systems (analytics, telemetry, IoT) and how to build infrastructure to support themExperience working with geographically distributed teamsA proactive, innovative mindsetWhy else you’ll love it hereSalary is discussed on a call with a recruiter to match your experience with the correct salary; the team focuses on finding the right octofit.Octopus Energy Group offers a unique culture with autonomy and opportunities to work with co-owners on groundbreaking projects. We have been recognised as a great place to work and value leadership and employee well-being.Visit our UK perks hub - Octopus Employee BenefitsWe would prefer someone who can work in our London office but will consider remote candidates. However, you do need to be able to work in the UK.Got any burning questions before then? Drop us a message at talent at octoenergy dot com and we’d love to helpIf this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and an inclusive work environment for everyone. #J-18808-Ljbffr