Site Reliability​/Gitops Engineer

Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

Join Canonical, a leading provider of open source software and operating system solutions, as a Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer. In this role you’ll build and maintain automation solutions for public clouds and Canonical’s private cloud, and help shape the future of our open‑source products.

Location:

Remote (any timezone).

• 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; set up, maintain, and use 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.

• A deep experience of, and knowledge to define operations in code, using version control, peer review and CI/CD to roll out changes 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.

Canonical is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination, and we celebrate diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our organization.