Site Reliability Engineer at Canonical

Canonical – We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation – Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it’s the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-time

Background

• Next-gen operations at scale, with pure Python infra-as-code, from bare metal to containers and applications. Our goal is to perfect enterprise infrastructure devops.
• We run hundreds of private cloud, Kubernetes, and application clusters for customers across physical and public cloud estate, and we are raising the bar on what’s possible with automation by embracing a universal operator pattern and model-driven operations.
• To succeed in this role you need to believe in automation as a pure software engineering problem, not a hack-it-till-it-works-for-me problem. You need to be interested in the scientific approach to operations at scale, driven by metrics and code, and you need to be able to learn the entire stack, from bare metal networking and kernel up to serverless and open source applications.

Job Details

• Our site reliability engineers bring Python software-engineering skills and rigour to the operations domain. We practice devsecops from bare metal to application. We architect and run OpenStack, Kubernetes and software defined storage, and we enable devsecops for applications running on that infrastructure too.
• To become a member of this team, you need to be a software engineer fluent in Python, you need a genuine interest in the full open source infrastructure stack from metal to containers, and you need the ability to work in a high pressure operations environment 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. We drive upgrades to keep our customers on the latest, best solutions.

Requirements

• Software Engineering or Computer Science degree
• Linux experience and familiarity with Linux networking and storage
• Python software development experience
• Demonstrated drive for continual learning
• Devops experience.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with OpenStack or Kubernetes deployment or operations
• We hope that you’ll join us in helping to shape and build the future of free software together.

What Canonical Offers

• Technical management team that understands the details of what we are developing
• A culture of openness and inclusiveness
• Helpful and talented engineers who are world-class experts in many fields
• Teams focused on good work life balance with long average retention rates
• A wide range of engineering disciplines and career paths that can move between divisions
• Fully remote company for career growth without relocation requirements.
• Learning and Development
• Annual Compensation Review
• Recognition Rewards
• Annual Leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Flexible working option.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

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