Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

Overview

Senior Site Reliability / GitOps Engineer at Canonical (remote, worldwide). You will operate the infrastructure that supports Ubuntu and Canonical through code and cloud-native thinking.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure for Canonical's platforms.
• Implement GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
• Manage incident response, on-call rotations, and post-incident reviews.
• Improve monitoring, observability, and performance optimization across services.
• Collaborate with Platform, Cloud, and Engineering teams to drive reliability initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in SRE and automation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience in production environments.
• Strong Linux/Unix proficiency and experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Deep knowledge of containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, and related systems).
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

About Canonical

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu and a leader in open-source software and cloud-native infrastructure. We design, build, and support the platforms that power modern computing and cloud environments.