Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer job at Canonical
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Vacancy title:
Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Information Technology , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

Canonical

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, July 13 2023 

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, June 30 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
As a Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer engineer you will
• Apply your experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practice within IS by constantly increasing automation and improving IaC processes
• Automate software operations for re-usability and consistency across private and public clouds, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems
• Develop new features and improve the resilience and scalability of the existing cloud and container portfolio at Canonical
• Maintain operational responsibility for all of Canonical's core services, networks, and infrastructure
• Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation, Setting up, maintaining and using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch; design, implement and maintain monitoring and alerting for various systems and services
• Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures
• Provide assistance and work with globally distributed engineering, operations, and support peers
• Be given uninterrupted development time to focus on larger projects and automation of manual tasks
• Share your experience, know-how and best practices with other team members in design sessions, mentorship and 'doing work together'
• Carry final responsibility for time-critical escalations

What we are looking for in you
• A deep experience of, and knowledge to define operations in code, using version control, peer review and CI/CD to roll out changes both to applications and infrastructure
• Strong modern engineering background (peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI/CD, Agile)
• Python software development experience, with large projects
• Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls
• Affinity with various forms of Linux storage, from Ceph to Databases
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise Linux servers
• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies
• Bachelor's degree or greater, preferably in computer science or related engineering field
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person
• Motivated and able to troubleshoot from kernel to web, and willing to ask others when appropriate
• A willingness to be flexible and able to learn new things quickly
• Be inspired by the needs of fast-changing environments
• Happy to work within distributed teams
• Be passionate and familiarized about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Thursday, July 13 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 29-06-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 29-06-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 29-06-2066
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