Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

About This Role

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to join its Information Systems (IS) team, responsible for supporting and maintaining IT production services for over 60 million Ubuntu users. This role focuses on driving operations automation through Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and Canonical's open-source products across private and public clouds.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of automation and Gitops in your team as an embedded tech lead
• 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 IaC experience to develop infrastructure as code practices within IS
• Automate software operations for re-usability and consistency across private and public clouds
• Maintain operational responsibility for Canonical's core services, networks, and infrastructure
• Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, performance investigation, and 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
• Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations

Requirements

• Modern view on hosting architecture, driven by infrastructure as code across 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
• 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

• Familiarity with open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits