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    Information Systems - Open Source Technical Architect

    Canonical
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    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
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    Requirements

    • •Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
    • •Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
    • •Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
    • •Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
    • •Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies & operation
    • •Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls, internet transit and large scale/bandwidth networking
    • •Experience dealing with significant production outages, incident response and postmortems
    • •A passion for writing, sharing, and maintaining enterprise open-source software solutions
    • •Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person
    • •Be familiarized and passionate about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian

    What You'll Do

    • •Define, get buy-in and implement the holistic vision of a world class internal cloud
    • •Setup, maintain and update the technical design roadmap and guidelines for the SREs within IS, with the aim of improving reliability, resilience, operational scalability, and technical scalability
    • •Collaborate with, and provide the cloud-ops software development teams with input for roadmap, requirements and prioritization to build a world-class, highly standardized and automated operation
    • •Provide the IS management with input and advice with regards to technology, reliability, resilience and business cases
    • •Lead technical choices to implement solutions as self-service products, ensuring scalable operation
    • •Collaborate with product security as well as operations security to set best practice and mitigate new threats in a timely manner
    • •Automate operations for reuse across the world's largest companies, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems
    • •Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures
    • •Analyze incidents and events, and establish what the reason behind the reasons are, and what structural improvements can be made to minimize the chance of them reoccurring

    Nice to Have

    • •Modern software engineering background (peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI/CD, Agile)
    • •Hands-on experience of automatic administration of enterprise Linux servers at scale

    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 Program
    • •Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
    • •Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

    About Canonical

    Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, delivers trusted open source for everyone and provides security, support and services to enterprises.

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