Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

Overview

Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer at Canonical. 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 cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and a mostly distributed workforce.

We are hiring a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to our Information Systems (IS) team. This role is an automation-first senior technologist with a passion for Linux to build a career with Canonical and drive success for those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products.

Responsibilities

• 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 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, considering the complexities of distributed systems
• 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
• 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, know-how and best practices with other team members in design sessions, mentorship and collaborative work
• Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations

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About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

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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