DevOps Manager

At Octopus Deploy, we believe in the importance of rest, recharge, and balance. Every year, our team takes a well-earned break during our company-wide shutdown at the end of December. This reflects our core values of supporting our team members and fostering a culture of well-being.

Our hiring process is also part of this commitment to thoughtful engagement. If you’ve applied to a role or are considering applying to a role during this time, we want you to know we'll be back on January 2, 2025, and will review all applications promptly upon our return.

Thank you for considering Octopus Deploy as the next step in your journey. We look forward to connecting with you in the new year!

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, ASOS, Xero, monday.com, 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 30–50% every year for the past 8 years, and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years. [In 2024, Octopus Deploy acquired Codefresh, Argo maintainers, and the leaders in enterprise GitOps.] Octopus now provides the industry's most comprehensive Continuous Delivery solution for organizations operating at scale.

We 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 are seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead a team of talented DevOps engineers working on a cutting-edge product in the DevOps domain. This team plays a critical role in enhancing and maintaining a high-scale SaaS platform, streamlining the delivery lifecycle for multiple products, improving developer experience, and advancing monitoring capabilities.

As part of a company deeply rooted in Kubernetes and GitOps, the DevOps team not only provides expertise in these areas but is also integral to shaping the direction of our product. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic, high-growth environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing all aspects of the team's day-to-day work, planning, and prioritizing tasks and agendas while working closely with development teams, support engineers, and R&D leadership.
• Leveraging a highly technical background to take on complex tasks as needed.
• Ensuring the availability and smooth, cost-efficient operation of our production environment, including leading efficient incident response.
• Maintaining and improving the release lifecycle for various products, ensuring frequent and reliable delivery.
• Designing and embedding industry best practices for online services, including disaster recovery, business continuity, and service health measurement.
• Providing development teams with platforms and tools that streamline their work and increase productivity.
• Establishing a robust and reliable monitoring framework for complex distributed systems.
• Driving the professional growth and development of a highly motivated team.
• Constantly learning and exploring the cutting edge of DevOps tools and practices, and leading their implementation.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with DevOps and cloud technologies.
• 2+ years of experience as a team lead.
• Possess exceptional troubleshooting skills and diagnostic intuition for solving challenging problems.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes (both operational and deployment) and Docker.
• High familiarity with public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, and Azure); proven expertise with more than one is a significant advantage.
• Familiarity with continuous monitoring solutions, including Prometheus, Grafana stack (Loki, Mimir, Pyroscope), and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with event-driven microservices and event buses such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of deployment models, capacity management, and service utilization.
• Expertise in the design, architecture, and operation of complex, large-scale online services.
• Programming and scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or Golang.
• Familiarity with GitOps principles is a must; strong experience with one or more Argo projects is a plus.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling like Terraform; experience with Crossplane is an advantage.
• Experience working with databases (e.g., NoSQL, MongoDB) and a strong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional, global, and remote teams from diverse backgrounds.

Why Join Us?

• Cutting-Edge Technology: Be part of a company that lives and breathes Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native technologies, working on innovative solutions at scale.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a supportive and highly skilled team, where your expertise and ideas will shape the future of our product.
• Professional Growth: Enjoy opportunities for continuous learning, growth, and staying ahead in the fast-evolving DevOps ecosystem.
• Impactful Work: Contribute to building and maintaining a platform that supports thousands of developers worldwide, making a real difference in the industry.

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. 

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. 

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• Ask for sensitive personal information, such as credit card details, bank account numbers, or other financial information during the recruitment process.

• Request payment, fees, or purchases from job seekers.

• Send checks for equipment purchases prior to employment.

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Signs of a Recruitment Scam

Be vigilant about the following red flags:

• The sender uses email domains that do not end in @octopus.com (e.g., name.sr.octopus.com or generic addresses like @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com).

• Poor spelling and grammar in emails or official-looking documents.

• Requests for payment, financial details, or fees to proceed in the hiring process.

• Receiving a check and being asked to deposit it for equipment purchases before employment.

• Contacting you through informal channels such as WhatsApp, particularly in the United States.

• Pressure to act quickly or threats of losing the opportunity if immediate action is not taken.

We take fraudulent activities seriously and are committed to ensuring the integrity of our hiring process. Thank you for helping us protect our community and future Octonauts!

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