Site Reliability Engineer, GitOps

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Canonical

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

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.

📋 Description

• Apply your experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practice within IS by constantly increasing automation and improving IaC processes • Automate software operations for re-usability and consistency across private and public clouds, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems • Develop new features and improve the resilience and scalability of the existing cloud and container portfolio at Canonical • Maintain operational responsibility for all of Canonical’s core services, networks, and infrastructure • Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation, Setting up, maintaining and using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch; design, implement and maintain monitoring and alerting for various systems and services • Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures • Provide assistance and work with globally distributed engineering, operations, and support peers • Be given uninterrupted development time to focus on larger projects and automation of manual tasks • Share your experience, know-how and best practices with other team members in design sessions, mentorship and ‘doing work together’ • Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations.

🎯 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

• Canonical is an equal opportunity employer • We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. • Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.