Senior SRE & GitOps Engineer for Distributed Teams

Canonical Ltd.; Manama; Hybrid; BHD 24,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed team sprints

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Parental leave

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to join the Information Systems team. The role emphasizes automation-first and IaC, with responsibilities across design, implementation, and operation of core services used by millions.

You will work with Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud environments, applying GitOps to drive reliability and scalability. The team collaborates globally, values open source, and offers in-person sprints twice a year while supporting distributed work and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or greater in computer science or a related engineering field.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals and open-source mindset.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure deployed via code.

Responsibilities

• Drive automation and GitOps as embedded tech lead.
• Collaborate with IS architect to align solutions with vision.
• Design services/products for internal IS use.
• Increase IaC automation and improve CI/CD processes.
• Automate operations across private/public clouds; ensure consistency.
• Maintain core services, networks, and infrastructure.
• Develop observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch; set up monitoring and alerts.
• Coordinate with globally distributed teams; provide mentorship.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Linux

Cloud computing

Troubleshooting

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Job description

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to join the Information Systems team. The role emphasizes automation-first and IaC, with responsibilities across design, implementation, and operation of core services used by millions.

You will work with Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud environments, applying GitOps to drive reliability and scalability. The team collaborates globally, values open source, and offers in-person sprints twice a year while supporting distributed work and