Senior DevOps Engineer
About Octopus Deploy:
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, Xero, 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 20–50% every year for the past 9 years, and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 12 years. Octopus now provides the industry's most comprehensive Continuous Delivery solution for organizations operating at scale.
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.
About the role:
What you'll do:
- Build and improve Kubernetes and GitOps-based tooling so teams can deliver faster and with less risk.
- Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) for repeatable, reliable environments.
- Strengthen CI/CD practices and tooling to shorten feedback loops and reduce manual work.
- Improve monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry) so issues are found earlier and resolved faster.
- Partner across R&D and product to align on shared ownership, reliability, and operational standards.
- Mentor and support engineers so teams adopt best practices and get unblocked quickly.
- Protect production systems by improving health, stability, and incident readiness over time.
Why you'll love this role:
- Work on a DevOps-native product and platform where Kubernetes and GitOps aren’t “nice to have” — they’re core.
- Make visible, compounding impact by helping multiple teams ship and operate more effectively.
- Shape standards and direction for delivery, developer experience, and observability across the organization.
- Join a supportive, skilled team with room to learn, grow, and stay close to a fast-moving DevOps ecosystem.
Your background:
- 5+ years of experience with DevOps and cloud technologies.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerization.
- Strong knowledge of at least one major public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) experience with more than one is a plus.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
- Strong familiarity with CI/CD practices and tooling.
- Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry).
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python).
- Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills in distributed, cross-functional teams.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Crossplane and Argo projects (e.g., Argo CD, Argo Workflows).
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures (e.g., RabbitMQ).
- Familiarity with databases such as MongoDB or other NoSQL systems.
- Programming experience in Go or Node.js.
Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values, how we structure teams, career progression, leave and benefits, and much more.
Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation. Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same. Benefits include a minimum of 25 days annual leave, up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options, generous health care (100% individuals, 75% dependents), dental and vision, 401K matching, pension contributions of up to 5%, and stock options. Learn more.
If you're enthusiastic about this position, even if you don’t meet all the criteria above, we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house, and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team.
We know your time is precious. If you apply, we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey.
Why join Octopus
Why Octopus Deploy
If you join Octopus, you'll be joining a high trust, remote-first team that helps over 150,000 people around the world to deliver working software to production.
We've been around since 2012 and we're used by over 25,000 companies, including ASOS, Xero, StackOverflow, NASA and Disney.
Growing, sustainable company
We're profitable and long-term oriented. And yet we're growing quickly. It's a unique opportunity to join a growing company without all the craziness. With that growth comes all kinds of opportunities for career progression and professional and personal development.
What to expect
What's it really like here? We've made our internal handbook public, so you can see for yourself. It will answer many of the questions you might have.
Our perks & benefits
Don't see a role you're interested in?
If you share our core values but none of the roles above seem quite right, but you think you can bring something unique that might help, we'd love to hear from you.