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Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Canonical
Remote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Job Description

A Site Reliability Engineering Manager responsible for leading a high-performance, distributed team in implementing DevOps and cloud-native operations, ensuring the delivery of reliable, automated services at scale for Ubuntu and Canonical's open-source platform.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a high-performance team in daily agile DevOps practices
  • Coordinate and drive internal projects related to operations and engineering
  • Mentor engineers to improve their skills and team capabilities
  • Implement structured engineering and operations processes
  • Ensure team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
  • Work to meet service level agreements with global customer deployments
  • Deliver quality managed services in a timely and consistent manner
  • Represent the IS team to stakeholders, customers, and internal teams

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 as a Linux and operations expert
  • Ability to lead a team in daily agile devops practices
  • Experience managing a high-performance team
  • Strong skills in operations management, software engineering, and product development
  • Excellent team leadership and management skills
  • Effective representation of the IS team to stakeholders, customers, and internal teams
  • Ability to organize, coordinate, and drive internal projects
  • Ability to mentor engineers to improve their skills
  • Ability to identify and measure team health indicators
  • Experience implementing structured engineering and operations processes
  • Experience ensuring proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
  • Experience working with the latest technologies in a fast-paced engineering environment
  • Experience working with or managing distributed teams (preferred but not mandatory)
  • Experience with Ubuntu system administration (preferred but not mandatory)

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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