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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Canonical, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21276

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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 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 across many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles.

Location: Globally remote role

Responsibilities Our cloud operations engineers bring Python software‑engineering skills and rigor to the operations domain. We practise dev‑sec‑ops from bare metal to application, architect and run OpenStack, Kubernetes and software‑defined storage, and enable dev‑sec‑ops for applications running on that infrastructure. To succeed in this role you need to believe in automation as a pure software‑engineering problem, to be interested in the scientific approach to operations at scale, driven by metrics and code. You must be able to learn the entire stack, from bare metal networking and kernel up to serverless and open source applications.

What we are looking for in you

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

Nice‑to‑have skills

Experience with OpenStack or Kubernetes deployment or operations

Familiarity with public or private cloud management

What we offer

Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly 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

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.

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