Cloud platform engineer in energy forecasting

Amperon is the leading energy forecasting company, positioned at the intersection of energy data and AI. Founded in 2018, Amperon has become a trusted partner for power and utility companies, delivering demand, renewable generation, and price forecasts. With cutting-edge predictive analytics, seamless data integrations, and premium customer support, Amperon enables customers to enhance grid reliability and optimize asset performance.

• Run and evolve several AKS clusters (production, workflow, and AI/agent workloads) with Karpenter, Cilium network policy, workload identity, External Secrets, Helm and ArgoCD.
• Drive our Terraform estate, run through Atlantis: provider upgrades, drift reconciliation, module design and guardrails that keep changes safe, plus the GitHub Actions runners and build pipelines that ship them.
• Operate MySQL Flexible Server and self-managed ClickHouse with resilience first: replication, failover, backup and restore, capacity planning and safe upgrades.
• Design isolated, auditable environments for agentic workloads and MCP services, including egress controls, identity and observability, and a self-service path for teams to deploy internal apps safely.
• Evolve our observability stack (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo), keep alert rules in code, and make sure we hear about problems before customers do.
• Find and land Azure savings; we have cut tens of thousands of dollars a month and expect more.
• Join an on-call rotation spread across time zones, so customers and our own engineering teams get help during their working hours.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems, and support data engineering, data science and product teams.
• Write design docs, review code, mentor engineers, and leave systems documented so no one person is a single point of failure.

• 8+ years in infrastructure, platform or site reliability engineering, including several years at a senior level owning production systems.
• A track record of leading multi-month infrastructure programs end to end: design doc, stakeholder alignment, phased rollout, cutover and cleanup.
• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, ideally on a managed offering (AKS, EKS or GKE), including networking and network policy.
• Strong Terraform skills on a large codebase, with GitOps-style workflows (Atlantis, ArgoCD or similar).
• Production experience with at least one major cloud. Azure is strongly preferred; deep AWS or GCP experience with a willingness to go deep on Azure also works.
• Experience operating relational or analytical databases in production (MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse or similar), including replication, upgrades and recovery.
• Security built into how you work: least privilege, identity-based access over static credentials, secrets management, and network isolation.
• Solid observability practice: metrics, logs and traces (ideally with OpenTelemetry), alerting that people trust, and SLO thinking.
• Comfortable writing Python and shell for automation and tooling.
• Clear written communication. Much of our work happens in design docs, PRs and async threads across time zones.
• Будет плюсом: Running ClickHouse at scale, including clustering and replication; Argo Workflows or other high-volume batch and workflow platforms; Cilium, Karpenter or Node Auto Provisioning on AKS; Infrastructure for AI agents or LLM workloads: sandboxing, egress controls, model gateways, Azure AI Foundry; Using AI coding agents (such as Claude Code) as a daily part of your engineering work; Compliance programs such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001; Cloud cost management (FinOps) on Azure; Experience in energy, utilities or time-series data platforms

• Competitive salary plus stock option package.
• Based on geographical location.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Annual company retreat
• Flexible PTO policy (take what you need)
• Flexible working