[Remote] Site Reliability Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Octave is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to build and support the cloud platforms and services that power its business. The role focuses on platform reliability, observability, secure and scalable Azure infrastructure, deployment practices, and operational resilience.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and optimise deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps, ensuring consistent, reliable and secure software delivery
• Design, implement and maintain cloud infrastructure and platform services to support secure, reliable and scalable application delivery
• Identify, analyse and resolve platform, infrastructure and deployment weaknesses, driving continuous improvement in reliability, performance and operational efficiency
• Develop and maintain complex PowerShell and Azure PowerShell (Az module) scripts to support platform administration, operational management and cloud service reliability
• Collaborate with architecture, development, security and operations teams to establish and promote the adoption of SRE practices, improving observability, monitoring, service reliability, incident management and operational excellence
• Deploy and support multi-tier Azure environments using OpenTofu modules, ensuring consistency across development, test and production environments
• Maintain and enhance engineering tooling that supports software delivery, platform operations, monitoring and service management
• Support the testing, validation and deployment of new platform capabilities, assessing operational impact and ensuring production readiness
• Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations, lead or contribute to blameless post-incident reviews, perform root cause analysis and implement measures to prevent recurring incidents
• Ensure cloud infrastructure, deployments and supporting platform services are secure, resilient, compliant and aligned with organisational standards and best practices
• Manage production deployments for Azure App Services, utilising deployment slots, swap operations and blue/green upgrade strategies to achieve zero-downtime releases
• Deploy, scale and manage containerised microservices using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Apps
• Configure and maintain Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights to establish and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets for business-critical applications

Skills

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure cloud services and infrastructure
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, Prometheus or equivalent technologies
• Experience with containers, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure App Services
• Understanding of incident management, root cause analysis, service reliability metrics and continuous service improvement
• Experience with infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, OpenTofu or Scalr
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python or similar
• Understanding of secure cloud engineering practices, deployment strategies and production readiness
• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Refold and MCP Gateway
• Experience with advanced cloud operations, platform resilience and service recovery strategies
• Knowledge of techniques for improving operational efficiency, reducing recurring incidents and strengthening service reliability
• Experience defining and applying SLIs, SLOs and error budgets in production environments

Benefits

• Remote work

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