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Job Description
Canonical is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to manage and automate large-scale cloud infrastructure using Python, focusing on open source technologies like OpenStack and Kubernetes, and ensuring mission-critical services run reliably and efficiently in a remote, global environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and operate cloud infrastructure including OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined storage.
- Develop and maintain automation tools using Python to manage infrastructure and applications.
- Implement and practice DevSecOps principles across bare metal, containers, and applications.
- Manage and support mission-critical services for global customers in a high-pressure environment.
- Stay current with the latest open source infrastructure technologies and perform system upgrades.
- Collaborate with teams to ensure infrastructure security, reliability, and performance.
Requirements
- Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science
- Experience with Linux and familiarity with Linux networking and storage
- Python software development expertise
- Operational experience in a high-pressure environment with mission-critical services for global brand name customers
- Ability to work in a globally remote role
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events, for up to two weeks each time
- Ability to learn the entire stack, from bare metal networking and kernel up to serverless and open source applications
- Interest in the full open source infrastructure stack from metal to containers
- Belief that automation is a pure software engineering problem, not a hack-it-till-it-works-for-me problem
- Interest in the scientific approach to operations at scale, driven by metrics and code
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 Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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