Overview
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 initiatives across public cloud, data science, AI, engineering, and IoT.
The company has 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
The IS team at Canonical supports and maintains all of Canonical's IT production services.
The team runs services used by over 60 million Ubuntu users.
This role is an opportunity for an Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to drive operations automation with an automation-first approach, in both private and public clouds, leveraging open source infrastructure as code, CI/CD practices, and Canonical's products for software operation automation.
Location: This role is available remotely in any timezone.
We are looking for an engineer who enjoys IT operations automation, Infrastructure as Code, and contributing to open source technologies, with the potential to impact Canonical and its customers globally.
Responsibilities
- Apply your experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practices within IS, continually increasing automation and improving IaC processes
- Automate software operations for reusability and consistency across private and public clouds, considering the complexities of distributed systems
- Develop new features and improve resilience and scalability of the cloud and container portfolio at Canonical
- Maintain operational responsibility for 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 experience and best practices with other team members in design sessions, mentorship and collaborative work
- Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations
Qualifications
- 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 Linux storage technologies (e.g., Ceph, databases)
- Hands-on experience administering enterprise Linux servers
- Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies
- Bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in computer science or related engineering field
- Clear and effective communication in English (email, chat, video/voice, and in-person)
- Motivated and able to troubleshoot from kernel to web, and willing to ask for help when appropriate
- Flexible, quick to learn new things, and comfortable in fast-changing environments
- Enjoy working in distributed teams
- Passionate about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneer in open source, publishing Ubuntu, a key platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud.
We recruit globally and expect excellence.
Most colleagues have worked from home since our inception in 2004.
Working here challenges you to think differently, work smarter, and raise your game.
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.
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- Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries: Software Development
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