Site Reliability Engineer

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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 globally 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 hiring a Site Reliability Engineer. Our goal is to perfect enterprise infrastructure DevOps practices, raising the bar on what’s possible with automation by embracing a model-driven approach, whether on‑premise or on public clouds.

The role

We deploy and run OpenStack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications, applying DevOps practices. To succeed in this role, you need a strong background in Linux, Python, networking, and know how clouds work. Your work will encompass the entire stack, from bare-metal networking and kernel up to Kubernetes and open source applications. You can expect to be trained in our core technologies like OpenStack, Kubernetes, security standards, and open-source products such as Kubeflow, Kafka, OpenSearch, and databases.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and maintain OpenStack, Kubernetes clusters, and storage solutions.
• Identify and address incidents, monitor and observe applications, anticipate potential issues, and enable product refinement.
• Write and maintain automation scripts / code with a scientific mindset focused on metrics and scalable operations.
• Collaborate with global teams and travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long.

Qualifications

Bonus skills

Benefits

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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