Site Reliability Gitops Engineer
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Posted January 20, 2026
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Job Description
A Site Reliability GitOps Engineer at Canonical is responsible for automating and maintaining the company's IT production services using infrastructure as code, enhancing system resilience and scalability, and collaborating with global teams to improve open source cloud and container technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement infrastructure as code to automate operations across private and public clouds.
- Automate software operations to ensure reusability and consistency in distributed systems.
- Enhance the resilience and scalability of cloud and container services.
- Maintain operational responsibility for core services, networks, and infrastructure.
- Set up and utilize observability tools for monitoring and alerting.
- Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, and operational procedures.
- Troubleshoot, perform capacity planning, and investigate performance issues.
- Contribute to open-source product improvements by providing feedback, submitting bugs, and writing pull requests.
- Share best practices, mentor team members, and participate in design sessions.
- Manage time-critical escalations and ensure high availability of services.
Requirements
- Deep experience of, and knowledge to define operations in code, using version control, peer review and CI CD to roll out changes both to applications and infrastructure
- Strong modern engineering background including peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI CD, and Agile methodologies
- Python software development experience, with large projects
- Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls
- Affinity with various forms of Linux storage, from Ceph to Databases
- Hands-on experience administering enterprise Linux servers
- Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies
- Bachelor’s degree or greater, preferably in computer science or related engineering field
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person
- Motivated and able to troubleshoot from kernel to web, and willing to ask others when appropriate
- A willingness to be flexible and able to learn new things quickly
- Be inspired by the needs of fast-changing environments
- Happy to work within distributed teams
- Be passionate and familiarized about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian
Benefits & Perks
Remote work in any timezone
Uninterrupted development time for larger projects and automation
Supportive global team collaboration
Opportunity to work with open source technologies and contribute to open source projects
Work environment that fosters learning and skill development in automation, cloud computing, and open source software
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