.This role is an opportunity for a hands-on, but literally hands-off, 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 an 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 do this by utilizing 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 Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer you willApply your experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practices within IS by constantly increasing automation and improving IaC processes.Automate software operations for re-usability and consistency across private and public clouds, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems.Develop new features and improve the resilience and scalability of the existing cloud and container portfolio at Canonical.Maintain operational responsibility for all of Canonical's core services, networks, and infrastructure.Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation, setting up, maintaining, and using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch; design, implement and maintain monitoring and alerting for various systems and services.Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies, and operational procedures.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 'doing work together'.Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations