DevOps Engineer at Canonical

Canonical – We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation – Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why its the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos

Overview

Help us shape the future of open source IT, devops, and IS, from bare metal to containers. Our goal is to revolutionise open source application and infrastructure operations.
We are on a mission to reshape the world of software operations, using Python for next-generation infrastructure-as-code and blazing a trail to model-driven operations.
We want to enable companies to run very efficient bare metal operations for high performance computing, private cloud, data lakes and analytics. To achieve this we need to invent some new technology, and we need to build some new products. In support of that goal we hire software engineers who are passionate about quality, reliability and devops, to join our regional devops teams.
This role is open to recent graduate software professionals as well as candidates with some professional product software engineering and site reliability experience. It requires that the candidate work from one of our regional Devops Centres in Bratislava (Europe), Taipei (Asia) and São Paulo (Americas) for one to two years in order to be trained and integrated into the wider devops operation at Canonical. We may help with relocation for the required office-based period at the Devops Centre.
This team is part of our fully managed infrastructure operations organisation. We run many private clouds and Kubernetes clusters for customers around the world, which enables us to improve our infra-as-code products based on our own real experience, mirroring that of our users and customers.
We work in Python, creating open source operations capabilities that simplify these operations for anybody, worldwide, who is building on Ubuntu.
This team is a true devops team – one of our global monitoring and network operations centres. Most of the work is pure Python software development where we expect a focus on quality, design, documentation, tests and performance. The team is responsible for remote monitoring, using open source products. The team also enhances packages of opscode, and Ubuntu itself, to ensure our platform is the easiest, most robust, and best performing way to drive your data centre.
This role is ideal for junior software engineers who want to work in Python, have a passion for distributed systems, and an interest in the entire Linux stack – from kernel to networking to virtualization and containers. It is a role that requires rigour in both code and customer interactions.
Our DevOps Engineers are technically astute open source enthusiasts who are excited about cloud computing and are ready to join a global team charged with delivering world class services to our customers.

What You’ll Do

Work in Python to design and deliver open source software operations code
Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications
Learn to think rigorously about application and infrastructure reliability
Shape high quality open source monitoring and alerting infrastructure
Simplify open source operations for our customers and open source community
Demonstrate sound engineering design and testing principles in your code
Follow agile software development practices
Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights
Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
Global travel up to 10% of time for internal and external events
Spend up to two years office-based in one of our Devops Centres – Slovakia, Taiwan, or Brazil.

Who You Are

University Degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field
Advanced level Python programming skills
You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
You are organized and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software
You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
You understand the importance of reliable operations in a devops world
You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies
You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking.

What you will learn:

Devops and site reliability engineering
OpenStack and Kubernetes in operation
Wide range of open source applications and skills
Work directly with customers in a range of different businesses
Real-life and hands-on exposure to a wide range of emerging technologies and tools.

We Offer