Site Reliability Engineer

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery, empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4,000 organizations globally –  including Ubisoft, ASOS, Xero, monday.com, Stack Overflow, NASA, and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions. 
Founded in Australia in 2012, our team of over 300 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable, balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 30–50% every year for the past 8 years, and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years.
We’ve been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same, with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive, collaborative, and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.
In this Build Platform team Site Reliability Engineer role, you will significantly impact the developer experience, enabling developers across our R&D teams to ship scalable applications with high speed, quality, and performance. If platform and build infrastructure excite you, this is your role.
This remote-first role requires full working rights and residency in Australia or New Zealand.

The Builds Team at Octopus Deploy is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who can:

• Use their SRE skills to keep the Builds systems running with high reliability.
• Help improve and iterate our existing reliability practices.
• Bring new ideas/practices to increase reliability and reduce toil.
• Spearhead implementation of new capabilities.
• Share SRE expertise with other teams in the company.

You will be a great fit for this role if:

• The way of working outlined here (https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/People/blob/main/Site-Reliability-Engineering/L3-Senior-Site-Reliability-Engineer.md) is your natural way of getting things done.
• You excel in an environment focused on availability, reliability, and observability.
• You are skilled in systems engineering and may have specialized expertise in specific areas.
• You find value in applying safety culture lessons from other industries to your work.
• You are adept at leading postmortems and designing deployment and monitoring pipelines.
• You have a passion for automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operational tasks.
• You embrace a "you built it, you run it" culture, with a commitment to quality and system availability, participating in a humane on-call program.
• You are self-motivated, work independently with high-quality output, and seek help or new tasks when needed.
• You collaborate effectively to solve problems, combining passion, pragmatism, and empathy.
• You are results-oriented, adaptive to business direction changes, and encourage the same approach in others.
• You thrive on candid feedback, solving complex problems, and helping fellow engineers succeed while working on valuable projects.

Our Tech Stack:

• Please note - this is to give you an idea of our tools, we don't expect expertise in everything.

Octopus Server:

• Our primary focus and flagship product.
• Written in .NET and uses SQL database.
• Any experience with C# Application SDLC is highly regarded (e.g. building, testing).

CI/CD:

• TeamCity is our build system for Octopus Server.
• Github Actions are used for some internal tools.
• CD - Octopus Deploy.

Workloads:

• A mix of internally developed applications and 3rd Party Software (e.g. TeamCity).
• Run in Azure with a mix of AppServices, AKS Clusters, and Azure Functions. 
• We use Linux containers mostly with a few Windows containers.
• Container workloads are run on AKS.
• Dockerhub and Artifactory container registries.

Infrastructure as Code(IaC):

• We use Terraform as our primary IaC tool.
• IaC workloads run in Octopus Deploy, with a few running as github actions.

Observability:

• We have adopted OpenTelemetry for a lot of our Builds syste