Senior SRE & GitOps Engineer - Automation Lead

Canonical Ltd.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Maternity and paternity leave

Wellness platform

Job summary

Canonical Ltd. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to advance automation and infra as code across private and public clouds. You will work with open-source tooling and CI/CD practices to keep Canonical’s production services reliable for Ubuntu users worldwide.

You will collaborate with a global team, lead embedded GitOps initiatives, and mentor colleagues while maintaining critical systems and driving scalable operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related engineering.
• Experience with Linux-based operations and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong Python development experience and large projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive automation and GitOps in the IS team as an embedded tech lead.
• Design and architect services as products for the organization.
• Apply IaC to increase automation and standardize cloud provisioning.
• Maintain operational responsibility for Canonical's core services, networks and infra.
• Implement observability with Prometheus, Grafana and Elasticsearch; develop monitoring and alerting.
• Collaborate with globally distributed engineering, operations and support peers.
• Lead time-critical escalations and share best practices across teams.

Skills

Python development

Kubernetes

IaC / automation

Linux networking

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Job description

Canonical Ltd. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer to advance automation and infra as code across private and public clouds. You will work with open-source tooling and CI/CD practices to keep Canonical’s production services reliable for Ubuntu users worldwide.

You will collaborate with a global team, lead embedded GitOps initiatives, and mentor colleagues while maintaining critical systems and driving scalable operations.