Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Canonical Ltd.; Dubai; Remote; AED 441,000 - 698,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Twice-yearly in-person team sprints

USD 2,000 learning budget per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel opportunities to meet teams

Travel upgrades for long-haul events

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape next-gen cloud operations. You will apply Python to infra-as-code, automate deployments, and oversee OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined storage across global environments.

A truly remote role with international travel expectations supports a 24/7 operations mindset and high-availability services. You will join a distributed team that values automation, metrics-driven decisions, and learning across the stack—from metal to

Qualifications

• Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science
• Experience with Linux networking and storage
• Python software development expertise
• Operational experience in a production environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long

Responsibilities

• Develop Python-based infra-as-code and automation for large-scale cloud infrastructure.
• Architect and operate OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined storage.
• Enable devsecops for applications on the infrastructure and manage mission-critical services for global customers.

Skills

Python

Linux

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Operational experience

Travel internationally

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Cloud management

Job description

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very 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 global 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.

We are hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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.

Location: Globally remote role

The role entails

Our cloud operations engineers bring Python software-engineering skills and rigour to the operations domain. We practise 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.

What We Are Looking For In You

• Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science
• Experience with Linux and familiarity with Linux networking and storage
• Python software development expertise
• Operational experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience with OpenStack or Kubernetes deployment or operations
• Familiarity with public or private cloud management

What We Offer Colleagues

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.