Junior Platform Engineer - Developer Platform & DevOps Tooling

About the role

Viridien is seeking a Junior Platform Engineer - Developer Platform & DevOps in our Houston office to help create the tools, services, and automation that enable engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate software across a large-scale HPC platform. This is a platform engineering role that combines software development, DevOps, and platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Work across CI/CD systems, GitLab, Kubernetes services, Puppet-managed environments, observability tooling, and OpenStack-backed infrastructure.
• Write maintainable code and support production services.
• Improve the platforms that engineering teams rely on day to day.
• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, operations, and research teams to build practical tools and platform capabilities.

Requirements

• Software development experience in one or more modern programming languages; Go, C++, Python, and scripting experience are especially useful.
• Experience building or contributing to tools, services, APIs, platforms, or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release processes, or deployment automation.
• Practical experience with Linux and containers, with exposure to Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms.
• Ability to write maintainable code and willing to learn how to operate it in real environments.
• Good debugging and problem-solving skills, with an interest in understanding issues across software and platform layers.
• Comfortable collaborating across development, platform, and operations teams.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with AI-powered CLI tools, reusable agent/AI skills, agent-based or AI-assisted developer workflows, and LLM-based tooling.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Thanos, or similar.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure-as-code, or deployment tooling such as Terraform or Helm.
• Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or similar configuration management tooling.
• Exposure to OpenStack, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale compute environments.
• Familiarity with authentication and access control systems such as OIDC.
• Experience supporting high-performance, data-intensive, or research-oriented workloads.