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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. Senior Site Reliability Engineer Nextgen operations at scale, with pure Python infraascode, from bare metal to containers and applications. Our goal is to perfect enterprise infrastructure DevOps. We run hundreds of private cloud, Kubernetes, and application clusters for customers across physical and public cloud estate, and we are raising the bar on whats possible with automation by embracing a universal operator pattern and modeldriven operations. To succeed in this role you need to believe in automation as a pure software engineering problem, not a hackittillitworksforme problem. You need to be interested in the scientific approach to operations at scale, driven by metrics and code, and you need to be able to learn the entire stack, from bare metal networking and kernel up to serverless and open source applications. Location: Globally remote role Responsibilities Our cloud operations engineers bring Python softwareengineering skills and rigour to the operations domain. We practise DevSecOps from bare metal to application. We architect and run OpenStack, Kubernetes and softwaredefined storage, and we enable DevSecOps for applications running on that infrastructure too. Qualifications Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science Experience with Linux and familiarity with Linux networking and storage Python software development expertise Operational experience Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long Nicetohave skills Experience with OpenStack or Kubernetes deployment or operations Familiarity with public or private cloud management Benefits Distributed work environment with twiceyearly team sprints in person Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year Annual compensation review Recognition rewards Annual holiday leave Maternity and paternity leave Employee Assistance Programme Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events Equal Opportunity Employment Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr