Senior Solutions Engineer

Description

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 270 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.

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.

An Octopus Deploy Solutions Engineer is responsible for working with their accounts and customers as their trusted advisor on their technical journey with continuous delivery (CD) at scale—from answering their technical questions and discovering their technical challenges, to demonstrating and proving the value of Octopus Deploy.

You will partner with account executives to help your accounts and customers solve their CD challenges. You will also interact with functional departments like Marketing and Engineering to help ensure Octopus Deploy continues to lead solving CD at scale.

To help our teams work together effectively, this remote position requires you to be located in the United Kingdom.

What You'll Do:

Working where you work best, perhaps in a home office and atmosphere designed by you, videoconferencing with colleagues and customers.

Building or updating technical assets like Octopus Deploy projects that deploy applications to Tomcat on EC2 instances or containerized applications to a Kubernetes cluster using Helm.

Working with your account team to discover the technical challenges and business goals of an account, and preparing a demo to showcase the value of Octopus Deploy and how it address their challenges and goals.

Delivering a demo for and discussing the technical questions of a prospective customer.

Providing guidance to a prospective customer conducting a Proof of Value with Octopus Deploy.

Educating customers on the value of Octopus Deploy by developer blogs and guides, delivering talks and webinars, and attending events to evangelize Octopus Deploy.

Your Background:

You are a personable, polite, and positive person.

You have a mix of technical skills and expertise—e.g.: development, release management, operations, infrastructure automation, cloud-native technologies

You have experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and have configured and used CI/CD tools.

You are comfortable communicating with customers, carrying technical conversations, and delivering compelling value-based demos.

You like to lean in and learn the latest technologies.

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.

The compensation for this role is:

Level 4-

Maturing: £130,000 annual + variable (OTE £166,000)

Performing: £135,000 annual + variable (OTE £173,000)

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, and stock options. Learn more.

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.

[Note to Search Firms/Agencies]

Octopus Deploy does not compensate search firms for unsolicited assistance unless they have a written search agreement with Octopus Deploy and the requisition is position-specific. Any resumes, curriculum vitae and other unsolicited assistance from search firms that do not have a written search agreement or position-specific requisition submitted to any Associate of Octopus Deploy will be deemed the sole property of Octopus Deploy and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Octopus Deploy.