Canonical

Sustaining Operations Engineer

Canonical

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9 months ago
Remote, Worldwide
Mid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes.
  • Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support, and product engineering teams.
  • Participate in upstream communities.
  • Debug issues and propose workarounds while liaising with Software Engineers.
  • Demonstrate good judgment in technical methods and techniques.
  • Prioritize work and manage time effectively.
  • Participate in team activities to improve processes, tools, and documentation.
  • Maintain clear, technical, and concise communications.
  • Participate in a regular weekend working rotation.
  • Provide subject matter expertise as the final point of escalation on operational issues.
  • Work from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time.

Requirements

  • Professional experience troubleshooting advanced Linux issues.
  • Background in Computer Science, STEM, or similar.
  • Exceptionally strong experience with Linux, LXD, OpenStack, Ceph, or Kubernetes.
  • Strong debugging experience with Python, Go, C, or C++ on Linux.
  • Ability to troubleshoot with gdb, pdb, tcpdump, or other tools.
  • Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches.
  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university.
  • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Benefits

  • 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 for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Tech Stack

CC++DockerGitGoKubernetesLinuxMongoDBOpenStackPostgreSQLPython

Categories

BackendDevOps