Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

About This Role

Drive operations automation and develop infrastructure as code with an "automation-first" approach. The role involves maintaining Canonical's core services, networks, and infrastructure, utilizing open-source tools and contributing to product improvement as part of a global SRE team.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of automation and Gitops in your team as an embedded tech lead
• Closely collaborate with the IS architect to align solutions with the IS architecture vision
• Design and architect services that IS can offer to the organization as products
• Apply 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
• Maintain operational responsibility for all of Canonical's core services, networks, and infrastructure
• Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation, including setting up, maintaining and using observability tools
• Provide assistance and work with globally distributed engineering, operations, and support peers
• Share 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

• Modern view on hosting architecture, driven by infrastructure as code across both private and public clouds
• Product mindset thriving to develop products rather than solutions
• Python software development experience, with large projects
• Experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems
• Proven exposure to manage and deploy cloud infrastructure with code
• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or greater, preferably in computer science or related engineering field

Nice to Have

• Passion and familiarity with open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits