Senior Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

Job Title: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our Information Systems team. This role offers an exciting opportunity for a seasoned technologist with a passion for cloud computing to build a career with a leading open-source software company.

The IS team supports and maintains all of our IT production services, running services used by millions of users worldwide. As a Senior SRE & Gitops engineer, you will be instrumental in driving operations automation to the next level, leveraging infrastructure as code software, CI/CD pipelines, and our leading products for software operation automation.

• Drive the development of automation and Gitops in your team as an embedded tech lead.
• Closely collaborate with the IS architect to align solutions with the IS architecture vision.
• Design and architect services that IS can offer to the organization as products.
• Apply experience of IaC to develop infrastructure as code practice within IS, constantly increasing automation and improving IaC processes.
• Automate software operations for re-usability and consistency across private and public clouds, considering complexities of distributed systems.
• Maintain operational responsibility for all of our core services, networks, and infrastructure.
• Develop skills in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance investigation, setting up, maintaining, and using observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch; design, implement, and maintain monitoring and alerting for various systems and services.
• 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 experience, know-how, and best practices with other team members in design sessions, mentorship, and 'doing work together.'

We are looking for someone with:

• A modern view on hosting architecture, driven by infrastructure as code across both private and public clouds.
• A product mindset thriving to develop products rather than solutions.
• Python software development experience, with large projects.
• Experience working with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems.
• Proven exposure to manage and deploy cloud infrastructure with code.
• 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.
• Passionate and familiarized about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian.

We offer:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
• Prioritized travel upgrades for long-haul company events.

We are a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.