Site Reliability​/Gitops Engineer

Join Canonical as a Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to global enterprises. Our platform, Ubuntu, serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide and is the foundation for public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Canonical partners with the world’s leading cloud and silicon providers and industry leaders across many sectors.

Location This role is available remotely in any timezone.

Responsibilities

• Apply your experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practice within the IS team and constantly increase automation and improve IaC processes.
• Automate software operations for re‑usability and consistency across private and public clouds, taking into account the complexities of distributed systems.
• Develop new features and improve the resilience and scalability of Canonical’s existing cloud and container portfolio.
• 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 and design and implement monitoring and alerting for 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.

Qualifications

• A deep experience of define operations in code using version control, peer review and CI/CD to roll out changes to both 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.
• Willingness to be flexible and learn new things quickly.
• Be inspired by the needs of fast‑changing environments.
• Happy to work within distributed teams.
• Be passionate and familiarised with open‑source, especially Ubuntu or Debian.

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. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.