Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer
Core
Drive operations automation and GitOps practices for Canonical's IT production services supporting 60 million Ubuntu users across private and public clouds.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer (embedded tech lead)
Builds
Automated infrastructure services, CI/CD pipelines, and observability solutions for global distributed systems
Domain
Open source operating systems, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Python software development, Kubernetes/container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Linux networking/routing/firewalls, Linux storage administration, cloud computing concepts, observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch), troubleshooting from kernel to web
Preferred skills
Product mindset, open source familiarity (Ubuntu/Debian), distributed team collaboration
Technologies
Python, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Ceph, private/public clouds
Responsibilities
Drive development of automation and GitOps as an embedded tech lead; Design and architect services as products; Apply IaC to increase automation and improve processes; Automate software operations for re-usability across clouds; Maintain operational responsibility for core services, networks, and infrastructure; Provide assistance to globally distributed engineering and operations peers; Share experience and mentor team members; Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with tech lead responsibilities
