Site Reliability Engineer

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.

We run hundreds of private cloud, Kubernetes clusters, and applications for customers across both physical and public cloud estates. We identify and address incidents, monitor and observe applications, anticipate potential issues, and enable product refinement to ultimately achieve high‑quality standards in our open source portfolio.

• Deploy and run Open Stack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications, applying Dev Ops practices.
• Work with mission‑critical services for global brand‑name customers.
• Train in core technologies such as Open Stack, Kubernetes, security standards, Kubeflow, Kafka, Open Search, and databases.
• Treat automation as a software engineering problem, employing a scientific mindset to drive operations at scale.

• Degree in software engineering or computer science.
• Python software development experience.
• Operational experience in Linux environments.
• Experience deploying or operating Kubernetes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long.

• Familiarity with Open Stack deployment or operations.
• Familiarity with public cloud deployment or operations.
• Familiarity with private cloud management.

• Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programs.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet your colleagues.
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events.
• Compensation adjusted every 6 months based on performance.
• Annual bonuses and recognition rewards.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer and is proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.