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Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

Canonical via Canonical
Salary
Not Disclosed
Location
Remote (Worldwide)
Type
Full Time
Deadline
30 Oct 2026
7 days left
Job Description
  • Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer for its Information Systems team - an automation-first senior technologist who loves Linux and wants to drive operations automation across private and public clouds.
  • Drive the development of automation, Gitops in your team as an embedded tech lead
  • Closely collaborate with the IS architect to align your solutions with the IS architecture vision
  • Design and architect services that IS can offer to the organization as products
  • Apply your IaC experience to grow the team's IaC practice, increasing automation and improving IaC processes
  • Automate software operations for consistency across private and public clouds, accounting for the complexity of distributed systems
  • Maintain operational responsibility for all of Canonical's core services, networks, and infrastructure
  • Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation, and set up and maintain observability and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Elasticsearch
  • 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 and best practices through design sessions, mentorship and working together
  • Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations
Requirements
  • A modern view on hosting architecture, driven by infrastructure as code across both private and public clouds
  • A 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 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
  • A willingness to be flexible and able to learn new things quickly
  • Be inspired by the needs of fast-changing environments
  • Happy to work within distributed teams
  • Be passionate and familiarized about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian
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