Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

Canonical

WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago

Skill Required

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Key highlights

Remote in any timezone
Required: Bachelor's degree or greater
Required: Python software development experience
Key Benefit: Global in-person team meetings 2-4 times yearly

Role overview

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, known for Ubuntu. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing, operating as a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with a workforce across 75+ countries. Canonical is hiring a Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer for the Information Systems (IS) team. This role is for an “automation-first” technologist who will drive operations automation across private and public clouds, utilizing open source infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and Canonical’s own products to support services used by over 60 million Ubuntu users.

Responsibilities

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, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems
Develop new features and improve the resilience and scalability of the existing cloud and container portfolio at Canonical
Maintain operational responsibility for all of Canonical’s core services, networks, and infrastructure
Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation, Setting up, maintaining and using 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
Improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies they’re based on by providing critical feedback to developers on how their products operate at scale by submitting bugs (and sometimes writing pull requests) and collaborating on design and implementations with other teams within the company
Share your 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

A deep experience of, and knowledge to define operations in code, using version control, peer review and CI/CD to roll out changes both 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 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

Benefits

Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution
Be given uninterrupted development time to focus on larger projects and automation of manual tasks