Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Location : Globally remote role

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 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. We are founder-led, profitable and growing.

The role entails

Our cloud operations engineers bring Python software-engineering skills and rigor to the operations domain. We practise DevSecOps from bare metal to application. We architect and run OpenStack, Kubernetes and software-defined storage, and we enable DevSecOps for applications running on that infrastructure too. The role involves next-gen operations at scale with pure Python infra-as-code, from bare metal to containers and applications, to perfect enterprise infrastructure DevOps. We run hundreds of private cloud, Kubernetes, and application clusters for customers across physical and public cloud estates, and we are raising the bar on automation by embracing a universal operator pattern and model-driven operations.

To succeed in this role you need to believe in automation as a pure software engineering problem, not a hack-it-till-it-works-for-me problem. You should be interested in the scientific approach to operations at scale, driven by metrics and code, and you should be able to learn the entire stack, from bare metal networking and kernel up to serverless and open source applications, with the ability to work in a high-pressure operations environment with mission-critical services for global brand-name customers.

Responsibilities

• Be fluent in Python and apply software engineering practices to operations tasks
• Architect, deploy and operate OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined storage
• Develop and maintain infra-as-code and automation to improve reliability and scale
• Collaborate across teams to implement DevSecOps for infrastructure and applications
• Operate in a high-availability environment for global customers

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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 high standard for people joining the company. 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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