Full-Time Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Octopus is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Site Reliability Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting Australia, New Zealand based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Site Reliability Engineer role at Octopus Deploy, a global Continuous Delivery company. Impact developer experience by enabling scalable application delivery.
Remote-first role requiring full working rights in Australia or New Zealand.
Responsibilities:
- Keep Build systems running reliably.
- Improve and iterate existing reliability practices.
- Introduce new ideas/practices for improved reliability and reduced toil.
- Spearhead implementation of new capabilities.
- Share SRE expertise across the company.
Ideal Candidate:
- Strong alignment with Octopus Deploy's remote-first & transparent work culture.
- Experience in Systems Engineering, with specialization a plus.
- Proficient in leading postmortems and designing deployment/monitoring pipelines.
- Passion for automating builds, tests, deployments, infrastructure, and operations.
- Commitment to quality and system availability within a humane on-call program.
- Collaborative & results-oriented; adept at solving complex problems.
- Thrives on feedback, and helps fellow engineers.
Tech Stack:
- Octopus Server (.NET, SQL database)
- TeamCity (Build System)
- GitHub Actions
- Azure (AppServices, AKS Clusters, Azure Functions)
- Linux Containers (primary)
- Terraform (IaC)
- OpenTelemetry
- SumoLogic, Honeycomb (Observability)
Typical Day:
- Develop new reliability capabilities.
- Support internal teams with build, testing, and packaging.
- Collaborate with engineers via Zoom to solve issues.
- Respond to and resolve platform alerts.
- Improve documentation.
- Share knowledge through blog posts or presentations.
- Proactively reduce future toil via automation.
Compensation:
- Level 2 SRE: $115k-$135k AUD / $125k-$145k NZD
- Level 3 Senior SRE: $145k-$165k AUD / $155k-$175k NZD (Excludes Super and Kiwi Saver)
Benefits: 25+ days annual leave, sick leave, parental leave, and stock options