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, 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. The team is in charge of running services used by over 60 million Ubuntu users. • As an SRE & Gitops engineer you’ll be in a unique position to drive operations automation to the next level, both in our own private clouds as well as in the public clouds. • In addition to defining the infrastructure as code, you will improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies they’re based on by providing critical feedback to developers on how their products operate at scale. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• A deep experience of, and knowledge to define operations in code, using version control, peer review and CI/CD to roll out changes both to applications and infrastructure • Strong modern engineering background (peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI/CD, Agile) • Python software development experience, with large projects • 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