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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 breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing.

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

Job Summary

The IS team at Canonical supports and maintains all of Canonical’s IT production services. The team is in charge of running services used by over 60 million Ubuntu users. As an SRE & Gitops engineer you’ll drive operations automation to the next level, both in our private clouds and public clouds, using open source infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and Canonical’s leading products for software operation automation.

In addition to defining infrastructure as code, you will improve Canonical products and the open‑source technologies they’re based on by providing critical feedback to developers, submitting bugs, writing pull requests, and collaborating on design and implementation.

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.

Location: This role is available remotely in any timezone.

Responsibilities

• Apply your experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practice within IS, 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.
• 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; 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.
• 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.
• 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.

What We Are Looking For

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

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.

Canonical is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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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