.This role is an opportunity for a hands-on, but literally hands-off, senior technologist with a passion for Linux to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products. If you have experience in IT operations automation, Infrastructure as Code, and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.Job SummaryThe IS team at Canonical supports and maintains all of Canonical's IT production services. The team is in charge of running services used by over 60 million Ubuntu users.As a Senior SRE & GitOps engineer, you'll be in a unique position to drive operations automation to the next level, both in our own private clouds as well as in the public clouds. We utilize the best of open source infrastructure as code software, software development practices such as CI/CD pipelines, and Canonical's leading products for software operation automation.In addition to defining the infrastructure as code, you will improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies they're based on by providing critical feedback to developers on how their products operate at scale. This is done by submitting bugs (and sometimes writing pull requests) and collaborating on design and implementations with other teams within the company.You'll be part of a global team of SREs that work together and support each other to provide the best possible services to our company, Canonical's customers, and the Ubuntu Community.As a Senior Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer you will:Drive the development of automation and GitOps in your team as an embedded tech lead.Closely collaborate with the IS architect to align your solutions with the IS architecture vision.Design and architect services that IS can offer to the organization as products.Apply your experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practice within IS by constantly increasing automation and improving IaC processes.Automate software operations for re-usability and consistency across private and public clouds, considering the complexities of distributed systems.Maintain operational responsibility for all of Canonical's core services, networks, and infrastructure.Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation; set up, maintain, and use observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch; design, implement, and maintain monitoring and alerting for various systems and services.Provide assistance and work with globally distributed engineering, operations, and support peers.Be given uninterrupted development time to focus on larger projects and automation of manual tasks.Share your experience, know-how, and best practices with other team members in design sessions, mentorship, and collaborative work.Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations
