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Canonical · 1 month ago

Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

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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, 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

Qualification

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Infrastructure as CodePythonKubernetesLinux networkingCloud computingGitOpsObservability toolsEnterprise Linux serversCephDatabasesPerformance investigationDistributed teamsCapacity planning

Required

A modern view on hosting architecture, driven by infrastructure as code across both private and public clouds.

A product mindset thriving to develop products rather than solutions.

Python software development experience, with large projects

Experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems.

Proven exposure to manage and deploy cloud infrastructure with code.

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

Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!

Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'

Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

Company

Canonical

Glassdoor

3.3

Canonical is a software company that markets commercial support and services for Ubuntu (Linux OS) and related projects.

Founded in 2004

London, England, GBR

1001-5000 employees

http://www.canonical.com

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