Remote Open-Source Information Systems Architect

Canonical; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget USD 2,000/year

Annual compensation review

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Program

Opportunity to travel to new locations

Travel upgrades for long haul events

Job summary

Canonical is seeking an Information Systems Architect to define best practices in infrastructure as code at a global scale. You will lead SRE and DCE teams, guiding reliability, scalability and automated operations across cloud infrastructure and services.

The IS Architect will coach teams on automation and security, influence technology choices, and work on the design of service architectures and runbooks. This is a home-based role with periodic travel.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies & operation.
• Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls, internet transit and large scale/bandwidth networking.
• Experience dealing with significant production outages, incident response and postmortems.
• A passion for writing, sharing, and maintaining enterprise open-source software solutions.
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person.

Responsibilities

• Define, get buy-in and implement the holistic vision of a world class internal cloud.
• Setup, maintain and update the technical design roadmap and guidelines for the SREs within IS, with the aim of improving reliability, resilience, operational scalability, and technical scalability.
• Collaborate with cloud-ops software development teams with input for roadmap, requirements and prioritization to build a world-class, highly standardized and automated operation.
• Provide IS management with input and advice on technology, reliability, resilience and business cases.
• Lead technical choices to implement solutions as self-service products, ensuring scalable operation.
• Collaborate with product security as well as operations security to set best practice and mitigate new threats in a timely manner.
• Automate operations for reuse across the world's largest companies, considering distributed systems complexities.
• Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures.
• Analyze incidents and events to determine root causes and structural improvements to minimize recurrence.

Skills

Cloud computing concepts

Linux networking

Incident response

Open source software

English communication

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

Canonical is seeking an Information Systems Architect to define best practices in infrastructure as code at a global scale. You will lead SRE and DCE teams, guiding reliability, scalability and automated operations across cloud infrastructure and services.

The IS Architect will coach teams on automation and security, influence technology choices, and work on the design of service architectures and runbooks. This is a home-based role with periodic travel.