Senior Site Reliability Engineer - GitOps

March 16

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Canonical

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Open Source • Cloud • AI

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

📋 Description

• This role is an opportunity for a hands-on, but literally hands-off, senior technologist with a passion for Linux to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products. • The IS team at Canonical supports and maintains all of Canonical’s IT production services. • As a Senior SRE & Gitops engineer, you’ll be in a unique position to drive operations automation to the next level. • In addition to defining the infrastructure as code, you will improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies they’re based on. • You’ll be part of a global team of SREs that work together and support each other to provide the best possible services to our company, Canonical’s customers, and the Ubuntu Community. • Drive the development of automation, Gitops in your team as an embedded tech lead. • Closely collaborate with the IS architect to align your solutions with the IS architecture vision. • Design and architect services that IS can offer to the organization as products. • Maintain operational responsibility for all of Canonical’s core services, networks, and infrastructure. • Provide assistance and work with globally distributed engineering, operations, and support peers. • Share your experience, know-how, and best practices with other team members in design sessions, mentorship, and ‘doing work together’.

🎯 Requirements

• A modern view on hosting architecture, driven by infrastructure as code across both private and public clouds. • A product mindset thriving to develop products rather than solutions. • Python software development experience, with large projects • Experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems. • Proven exposure to manage and deploy cloud infrastructure with code. • Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls • Affinity with various forms of Linux storage, from Ceph to Databases • Hands-on experience administering enterprise Linux servers • Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies • Bachelor's degree or greater, preferably in computer science or related engineering field • Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person • Motivated and able to troubleshoot from kernel to web, and willing to ask others when appropriate • A willingness to be flexible and able to learn new things quickly • Be inspired by the needs of fast-changing environments • Happy to work within distributed teams • Be passionate and familiarized about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! • Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum • Annual compensation review • Recognition rewards • Annual holiday leave • Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Programme • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’ • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events