Junior Platform Engineer - Developer Platform & DevOps Tooling

CGG • Houston, TX

14h • Onsite

About The Position

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. We are looking for someone with a developer background who wants to grow their platform engineering skills while writing maintainable code, supporting production services, and improving the platforms that engineering teams rely on day to day. You will work across CI/CD systems, GitLab, Kubernetes services, Puppet-managed environments, observability tooling, and OpenStack-backed infrastructure.

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 willingness 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• OpenStack and AI-related experience are useful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Help create the tools, services, and automation that enable engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate software across a large-scale HPC platform.
• Write maintainable code.
• Support production services.
• Improve the platforms that engineering teams rely on day to day.
• Work across CI/CD systems, GitLab, Kubernetes services, Puppet-managed environments, observability tooling, and OpenStack-backed infrastructure.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and range of benefits
• Sponsorship of visas/comprehensive relocation packages
• Relaxed dress code policy
• Tailored training, designed to enhance technical, commercial, and personal growth
• Support for volunteering and various company initiatives
• Company commitment to protecting our environment through sustainable solutions, energy saving and waste reduction enterprises.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed