Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

Overview

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to join the Information Systems (IS) team. This role is an opportunity for an automation-first senior technologist with a passion for Linux to build a career with Canonical and drive the success of those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products. If you have experience of IT operations automation, Infrastructure as Code and a passion for technology, you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

The IS team at Canonical supports and maintains all of Canonical's IT production services, running services used by over 60 million Ubuntu users.

As a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer you will be in a unique position to drive operations automation to the next level, both in our own private clouds as well as in the public clouds. We do this by utilizing the best of open source infrastructure as code software, software development practices such as CI / CD pipelines, and Canonical's leading products for software operation automation.

In addition to defining the infrastructure as code, you will improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies theyre based on by providing critical feedback to developers on how their products operate at scale. This is done by submitting bugs and collaborating on design and implementations with other teams within the company.

You'll be part of a global team of SREs that work together and support each other to provide the best possible services to our company, Canonical's customers and the Ubuntu Community.

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 IaC experience 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
• 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
• 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, know-how and best practices with other team members in design sessions, mentorship and doing work together
• 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; in order 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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Nashville, TN

Salary : $135,000.00-$175,000.00

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