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Senior
Full Time
remotehome_basedmentoringCI/CDcontainer_imagesopen_sourcesecurityagiledistributed_team
Requirements
- •Proficiency in Bash and Python
- •Experience working with CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- •Experience building container images
- •Command of at least one container management or orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes)
- •Hands-on experience with Linux systems, package management, build systems, release engineering, or artifact pipelines
- •Clear communication and end-to-end ownership, spanning design, review, documentation, operation, and cross-team collaboration
- •Commitment to sharing knowledge and helping those around you grow
- •Genuine appetite for learning and working outside comfort zone
- •Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, a STEM field, or similar discipline
- •Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- •Business level written and spoken English
- •Sincere personal motivation aligned with mission
- •International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long
- •0-7 years relevant experience
What You'll Do
- •Build and maintain a growing portfolio of high-quality, hardened container images
- •Design and operate automated CI/CD pipelines that build, test, scan, sign, publish, promote, and retire images across environments and architectures
- •Write tooling and tests to assess security compliance and cloud-native compatibility
- •Work closely with the community and partners to share container expertise and keep our portfolio current with new features, patches, and applications
- •Collaborate with product security, platform, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams
- •Contribute technical input to the team's decision-making
- •Set the standard for quality, defining image standards that span security, compatibility, performance, size, and developer experience
- •Grow knowledge base and write about the work done
- •Work in a collaborative, agile, and globally distributed environment
- •Mentor colleagues and contribute to hiring
- •Work from home with global travel of up to 15% for internal and external events
Nice to Have
- •Security-oriented maintenance mindset: investigate dependency and vulnerability findings, assess impact, and deliver safe fix
- •Understanding of software supply chain security, experience generating and consuming artifacts such as SBOMs, signatures, provenance, or CVE reports
- •Familiarity with GitOps principles and workflows
- •Familiarity with additional languages such as Go or Rust
- •Hands-on experience building minimal and distroless container images
- •Knowledge of the OCI specifications
- •Familiarity with security or compliance frameworks such as CIS, NIST, FedRAMP, or DISA STIG
- •Evidence of contributions to open source projects
- •Passion for embedding security across all stages of the engineering lifecycle (DevSecOps) and interest in using AI or agentic development responsibly and safely
- •Relevant Linux, container, or cloud-native certifications (such as CKS or DCA)
Benefits
- •Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- •Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- •Bi-annual compensation review
- •Company recognition rewards
- •40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and All Company holiday periods
- •Maternity and paternity leave
- •Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- •Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access
About Canonical
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, delivers trusted open source for everyone and provides security, support and services to enterprises.
London, UK
1000 - 5000
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