Remote Senior SRE & GitOps Engineer

Canonical Group Ltd; Hongkong; Hybrid; HKD 1,176,000 - 1,490,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Wellness Platform

Travel opportunities

Priority Pass for events

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to join the Information Systems team. You will drive automation, build IaC, and enable scalable operations across private and public clouds using open source tooling.

You’ll collaborate with architects and engineers worldwide, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and help maintain core services used by millions of Ubuntu users. This is a home-based, globally distributed role with a strong emphasis on open-source principles.

Qualifications

• A modern view on hosting architecture, driven by infrastructure as code across both private and public clouds.
• A product mindset thriving to develop products rather than solutions.
• Python software development experience, with large projects.
• Experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems.
• Proven exposure to manage and deploy cloud infrastructure with code.
• Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls.
• Affinity with various forms of Linux storage, from Ceph to Databases.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies.
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person.
• Motivated and able to troubleshoot from kernel to web, and willing to ask others when appropriate.
• A willingness to be flexible and able to learn new things quickly.
• Be inspired by the needs of fast-changing environments.
• Happy to work within distributed teams.
• Be passionate and familiarized about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of automation, Gitops in your team as an embedded tech lead.
• Closely collaborate with the IS architect to align your solutions with the IS architecture vision.
• Design and architect services that IS can offer to the organization as products.
• Apply your experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practice 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.
• 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.
• 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

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Open source

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or greater in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Canonical is seeking a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to join the Information Systems team. You will drive automation, build IaC, and enable scalable operations across private and public clouds using open source tooling.

You’ll collaborate with architects and engineers worldwide, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and help maintain core services used by millions of Ubuntu users. This is a home-based, globally distributed role with a strong emphasis on open-source principles.