Senior Site Reliability Engineer Canonical · Home based - Worldwide · Site Reliability Pay not stated 5y ago

Devopsroles; Philippines; Remote; PHP 7,561,000 - 11,342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team sprints in person twice a year

Learning budget USD 2000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel opportunities to meet Colleagu​

Priority Pass and travel upgrades

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a globally remote role. You will build and operate cloud infrastructure across OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined storage, using Python and IaC to automate operations from bare metal to containers and apps.

You will support DevSecOps, drive upgrades, and ensure services remain reliable and secure. Candidates should have a software engineering degree, strong Python skills, and Linux networking/storage experience, with

Qualifications

• Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science.
• Strong Python development skills and hands-on operational experience.
• Linux experience, including familiarity with networking and storage.
• You can travel internationally twice a year for company gatherings lasting up to two weeks.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure across OpenStack, Kubernetes and software-defined storage.
• Use Python and infrastructure-as-code to automate operations from physical hardware through containers and applications.
• Support DevSecOps for services running on the infrastructure, including customer-facing critical systems.
• Drive upgrades so customer environments stay current with newer infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Python

Operational experience

Linux

Networking

Storage

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Automation/IaC

Job description

Senior Site Reliability role at Canonical. Home based - Worldwide · full-time.

devopsroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure across OpenStack, Kubernetes and software-defined storage
• Use Python and infrastructure-as-code to automate operations from physical hardware through containers and applications
• Support DevSecOps for services running on the infrastructure, including customer-facing critical systems
• Drive upgrades so customer environments stay current with newer infrastructure solutions

What you bring

• A degree in software engineering, computer science or another listed field
• Strong Python development skills and hands-on operational experience
• Linux experience, including familiarity with networking and storage
• You can travel internationally twice a year for company gatherings lasting up to two weeks

Who this fits

This globally remote role suits a software engineer who wants to apply Python to infrastructure operations and learn across the stack. You'll work in a high-pressure environment supporting mission-critical services, and travel internationally twice a year for company events lasting up to two weeks.

From the employer

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.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

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
• 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

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• 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