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Job Description
A Site Reliability Engineer at Canonical is responsible for deploying, managing, and optimizing open source infrastructure such as OpenStack and Kubernetes, focusing on automation, monitoring, and incident management to ensure high-quality, mission-critical services for global customers in a remote work environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy and operate OpenStack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications using DevOps practices
- Identify and address incidents, monitor applications, and anticipate potential issues to ensure high-quality standards
- Automate operations through software engineering, leveraging metrics and code to scale infrastructure
- Work across the entire infrastructure stack from bare-metal networking and kernels to containers and open source applications
- Gain and apply expertise in cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, and related open source tools
Requirements
- Degree in software engineering or computer science
- Python software development experience
- Operational experience in Linux environments
- Experience with Kubernetes deployment or operations
- Ability to work in operations with mission-critical services for global brand-name customers
- Strong background in Linux, Python, networking, and knowledge of how clouds work
- Work experience encompassing the entire stack, from bare-metal networking and kernel up to Kubernetes and open source applications
- Willingness to be trained in core technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, security standards, open source products like Kubeflow, Kafka, OpenSearch, databases, and others
- Ability to deploy and run OpenStack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications applying DevOps practices
- Fluency in Python as a software engineer
- Genuine interest in the full open source infrastructure stack from bare metal to containers
- Ability to work in operations with mission-critical services for global brand-name customers
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events, with each trip up to two weeks long
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is adjusted every 6 months based on performance, with annual bonuses
Global remote work environment
Twice-yearly in-person team sprints in interesting locations around the world
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programs
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for long-haul company events
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