Canonical
Site Reliability Engineer
Employer explicitly allows international or location-independent remote work.
Worldwide
Employer listed it 7 weeks ago · Added 6 days ago
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Salary
Not stated
Location
Worldwide
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Work from anywhere
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About the role
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer
Our goal is to perfect enterprise infrastructure DevOps practices, raising the bar on what's possible with automation by embracing a model-driven approach, whether on-premise or on public clouds.
We run hundreds of private cloud, Kubernetes clusters, and applications for customers across both physical and public cloud estates. We identify and address incidents, monitor and observe applications, anticipate potential issues, and enable product refinement to ultimately achieve high-quality standards in our open source portfolio.
To succeed in this role, you need to have a strong background in Linux, Python, networking, and knowledge of how clouds work. Your work will encompass the entire stack, from bare-metal networking and kernel up to Kubernetes and open source applications. You can expect to be trained in our core technologies like OpenStack, Kubernetes, security standards, open source products like Kubeflow, Kafka, OpenSearch, databases, and many others.
Automation for us is a software engineering problem that we approach with a scientific mindset to bring operations at scale, driven by metrics and code.
Location: Globally remote role
The role
We deploy and run OpenStack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications, applying DevOps practices.
To become a member of our team, you need to be a software engineer fluent in Python, you need a genuine interest in the full open source infrastructure stack from bare metal to containers, and you need the ability to work in operations with mission-critical services for global brand-name customers.
As a member of the team, you will gain experience in a broad range of cloud technologies. We evolve our offerings as the state of the art improves, so you get to stay current with the latest capabilities in open source infrastructure.
What we are looking for in you
Degree in software engineering or computer science
Python software development experience
Operational experience in Linux environments
Experience with Kubernetes deployment or operations
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Bonus skills
Familiarity with OpenStack deployment or operations
Familiarity with public cloud deployment or operations
Familiarity with private cloud management
What we offer colleagues
Requirements
- ·Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
- ·Familiarity with OpenStack deployment or operations
- ·Familiarity with public cloud deployment or operations
- ·Familiarity with private cloud management
Benefits
- ·Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- ·Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- ·Every 6 months compensation review
- ·Recognition rewards
- ·Annual holiday leave
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from anywhere, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Canonical, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 6d ago. Last checked 24 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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