Remote SRE - Cloud Reliability & Observability

Octave; Madison (AL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Octave is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help build and support cloud platforms and services that power our business. You will work with development, architecture, security and operations teams to improve reliability, observability and production readiness.

You will design and maintain deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and platform services, while driving continuous improvement in reliability, performance and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices.
• Experience 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.

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

SRE principles

Azure cloud

Observability

AKS / App Services

Incident management

IaC

PowerShell / Python

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Scalr

Job description

Octave is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help build and support cloud platforms and services that power our business. You will work with development, architecture, security and operations teams to improve reliability, observability and production readiness.

You will design and maintain deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and platform services, while driving continuous improvement in reliability, performance and efficiency.