Job Opportunity
The IS team supports and maintains all of Canonical's IT production services, running products used by over 60 million Ubuntu users.
As a Senior SRE & Gitops Engineer you will drive operations automation to the next level in both our private clouds and the public clouds, using open-source IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and leading automation tools.
You will be part of a global team of SREs that collaborate to provide the best services to Canonical, its customers, and the Ubuntu community.
* Drive the development of automation and 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 IaC experience to develop infrastructure as code practice within IS, constantly increasing automation and improving IaC processes.
* Automate software operations for re-usability and consistency across private and public clouds, taking into account 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; set up, maintain, and use 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 collaborative work.
* Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations.