• Application Deadline:
• Position: Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Engineering / Technical 
  

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