Senior SRE & GitOps Engineer: Automate & Scale Cloud Infra

Canonical Ltd.; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed team sprints

Learning budget USD 2000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Wellness Platform

Travel opportunities

Travel upgrades

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Senior Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer to join the Information Systems team. You will lead automation initiatives across private and public clouds, applying IaC and GitOps practices to scale services used by millions of Ubuntu users.

You will collaborate with global teams to design production-grade services, enhance monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch, and drive continuous improvement in cloud infrastructure and software operations.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Linux-based hosting architectures driven by IaC across private and public clouds.

Responsibilities

• Drive automation development and GitOps in your team as an embedded tech lead.
• Collaborate with IS architect to align solutions with architectural vision.
• Design services to be offered to the organization as products.
• Develop IaC practices to increase automation and improve IaC processes.
• Automate operations for reusability across private and public clouds.
• Maintain operational responsibility for Canonical’s core services and infrastructure.
• Improve troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance monitoring with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch).
• Collaborate with globally distributed engineering, operations, and support peers.
• Provide time for larger projects and automation of manual tasks.
• Share knowledge through design sessions, mentorship, and team collaboration.
• Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations.

Skills

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

GitOps

Python

Kubernetes

Linux systems

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

English communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Job description

Canonical is seeking a Senior Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer to join the Information Systems team. You will lead automation initiatives across private and public clouds, applying IaC and GitOps practices to scale services used by millions of Ubuntu users.

You will collaborate with global teams to design production-grade services, enhance monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch, and drive continuous improvement in cloud infrastructure and software operations.