Senior SRE & GitOps Engineer - Automation & IaC Lead

Canonical Ltd.; Riyadh; Remote; SAR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team sprints twice yearly

Learning budget USD 2000 per year

Annual compensation review

Maternity & paternity leave

Wellness platform

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer to advance automation across private and public clouds. You will work with an IS team to define and operate scalable services, contributing to open-source ecosystems like Ubuntu.

You will collaborate globally, mentor peers, and own time-critical escalations while adopting an automation-first mindset in a distributed work environment.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of infra-as-code and cloud environments across private/public clouds.
• Product-minded approach to developing infrastructure as a service.
• Experience with Python on large projects and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Drive automation development and GitOps as an embedded tech lead.
• Collaborate with IS architect to align solutions with vision.
• Design services the IS organization can offer as products.
• Develop IaC to increase automation and improve processes.
• Automate operations for re-use and consistency across clouds.
• Maintain operational responsibility for core services, networks, infra.
• Implement monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch; alerting setup.
• Support globally distributed engineering and operations teams.
• Lead time-critical escalations and mentor teammates.

Skills

IaC

GitOps

Python

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking

Open source

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Job description

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer to advance automation across private and public clouds. You will work with an IS team to define and operate scalable services, contributing to open-source ecosystems like Ubuntu.

You will collaborate globally, mentor peers, and own time-critical escalations while adopting an automation-first mindset in a distributed work environment.