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GitOps Engineering Manager

Canonical
Remote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Job Description

A leadership role overseeing a high-performance DevOps team focused on GitOps and infrastructure automation, working across distributed systems, cloud platforms, and open-source technologies to deliver managed services and drive operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a high-performance DevOps team in daily agile practices
  • Coordinate and drive internal projects related to infrastructure and operations
  • Mentor engineers to enhance their skills and team capabilities
  • Implement and maintain structured engineering and operations processes
  • Ensure team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
  • Represent the IS team to stakeholders, customers, and internal teams
  • Ensure timely delivery of quality managed services and meet service level agreements

Requirements

  • Proven experience of software delivery using infrastructure as code
  • Proven experience managing devops teams for SAAS or similar offerings
  • Understanding of testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
  • Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems
  • Experience with cloud topologies and technologies
  • Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  • Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
  • Experience of being a Linux and operations expert
  • Ability to lead a high-performance team and represent the IS team to stakeholders, customers, and internal teams
  • Experience organizing, coordinating, and driving internal projects
  • Ability to mentor engineers to improve their skills
  • Experience implementing structured engineering and operations processes
  • Experience ensuring proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
  • Experience working across the full stack, from bare metal to Kubernetes, including cloud and virtualisation
  • Experience working across the full range of infrastructure, from public cloud to private cloud and edge
  • Experience working in and managing distributed teams
  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university

Benefits & Perks

Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Program
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

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