Specialty
The role
Canonical is hiring a Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer for its Information Systems team, which runs the IT production services used by over 60 million Ubuntu users. The role is remote in any time zone.
What you will do
- Develop infrastructure-as-code practice and increase automation across private and public clouds
- Add features and improve the resilience and scalability of Canonical's cloud and container portfolio
- Hold operational responsibility for core services, networks and infrastructure
- Set up and maintain observability and alerting with tools like Prometheus, Grafana and Elasticsearch
- Design service architecture, documentation and playbooks with development teams
- Handle time-critical escalations
What they ask for
- Deep experience defining operations in code with version control, peer review and CI/CD
- Python development experience on large projects
- Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing and firewalls
- Hands-on experience administering enterprise Linux servers
- Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts
- Clear communication in English across email, chat and calls
- Bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in computer science or engineering
What they offer
- Uninterrupted development time for larger projects and automation
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Canonical's careers page behind the apply button.
