Site Reliability Engineer
Posted on:
July 16, 2025
Job description
Octopus Deploy is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who can:
- Use their SRE skills to keep 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.
Responsibilities
You will be a great fit for this role if:
- The way of working outlined here (https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/People/tree/main/Engineering/Site-Reliability-Engineering) 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.
Job requirements
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.
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 systems.
- We are adopting OpenTelemetry for more use cases company-wide, delivering a full telemetry pipeline.
- SumoLogic and Honeycomb for analysis.
A typical day might include:
- Working on building new capabilities to increase reliability (we don’t want you staring at monitoring dashboards all day).
- Working where you work best, in a home office designed by you, using a device of your choosing, with or without music, in an atmosphere you create for yourself.
- Handling a request from an internal team, helping solve a challenging build, test or packaging issue, or offering advice to an engineer to help them fall into the pit of success.
- Pairing with another engineer on a Zoom call to solve a complex technical problem or explore and define the problem space for future innovation.
- Responding to an actionable alert and working to maintain the reliability of the platform used across the company.
- Improving our documentation to help engineers discover solutions for themselves and reduce lead time.
- Writing a blog post about something interesting for other engineers or preparing a presentation on what was learned from a recent incident.
- Facilitating an incident review or preparing a presentation on what was learned.
- Proactively reducing future toil by building automation.
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