Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Canonical
Gitops
Enterprise open source solutions
Job no longer available
Enterprise open source solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Canonical's mission is to make open source software available to people everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- As an Senior SRE & Gitops engineer you’ll be in a unique position to drive operations automation to the next level, both in our own private clouds as well as in the public clouds
- We do this by utilizing the best of open source infrastructure as code software, software development practices such as CI/CD pipelines, and Canonical’s leading products for software operation automation
- In addition to defining the infrastructure as code, you will improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies they’re based on by providing critical feedback to developers on how their products operate at scale
- This is done by submitting bugs (and sometimes writing pull requests) and collaborating on design and implementations with other teams within the company
- 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
- 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
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Canonical originally started as a company to help distribute Ubuntu (an operating system based on Linux). It is now a leader in delivering open source to the world quickly, securely and cost effectively.
With a community of 200,000, Canonical publishes an operating system which runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Just some of its partners include Microsoft, HP, Dell, aws, and Intel.
The founder has highlighted that Canonical's biggest challenge has been that demand is bigger than the company’s ability to service it. Originally a not-for-profit, Canonical is now monetising and is planning to go public. It also announced its product Ubuntu has a comprehensive subscription version called Ubuntu Pro, likely to aid monetising efforts.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
18% female employees
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$9.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $9.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Learning and personal professional development budget
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual leave
- Generous parental leave
- Priority Pass for travel
Company values
- Truly distributed: Exceptional, self-motivated, organised and passionate people deserve the freedom to live where they want. Our teams travel regularly to meet colleagues and customers.
- Best in class: We rate top for Linux security. We run more hosts, more workloads and more devices than anybody else, because we strive to do everything insightfully, properly, fairly, and openly
- Enterprise focused: The world is moving to Ubuntu – open source that's faster, cheaper and better. Empower engineers, secure precious data, share knowledge and lead the change
Company HQ
Southwark, London
Founders
Mark Shuttleworth
(CEO)Serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Thawte Consulting (sold to VeriSign for $575m)
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