Senior SRE & GitOps Engineer — Automation Leader

Canonical Ltd.

Helsinki

Remote

EUR 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

5 hours ago

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Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to join the Information Systems team. You will lead automation efforts, implement GitOps across private and public clouds, and enhance scale through IaC and CI/CD practices.

You will collaborate with global teams, contribute feedback to product development, and help maintain Canonical’s production services that support Ubuntu users. This role favors a distributed, mostly remote setup with periodic in-person sprints.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related engineering field.
Proven experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure, and containers.
Strong English communication across remote teams.
Experience in infrastructure as code and automation.

Responsibilities

Drive automation and GitOps as an embedded tech lead within IS.
Collaborate with IS architect to align solutions with architecture vision.
Design services to be offered to the organization as products.
Develop IaC practices to increase automation and improve IaC processes.
Maintain operational responsibility for Canonical’s core services, networks, and infrastructure.
Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation; set up and maintain observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch).
Provide assistance across globally distributed engineering, operations, and support peers.
Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations.