Site Reliability Engineering Manager

About the role

Canonical is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead a high-performance team in managing large-scale information systems and devops operations. The role involves bridging operations management, software engineering, and product development to support Ubuntu and Canonical's managed service offerings. You will drive infrastructure-as-code initiatives and mentor engineers while working in a fully distributed, global environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead your team in daily agile devops practices
• Represent the IS team to stakeholders, customers, and internal teams
• Organize, coordinate and drive internal projects
• Mentor engineers to improve their skills
• Identify and measure team health indicators
• Implement structured engineering and operations processes
• Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
• Work to meet service level agreements with customer deployments around the globe
• Deliver quality managed services in a consistent, timely manner

Required skills

• Linux
• Infrastructure as code
• DevOps
• SaaS
• Testing methodologies
• Distributed systems
• Cloud topologies

Nice to have

• Ubuntu system administration
• Agile software development
• Distributed team management

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university

Benefits

• Personal learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Performance-driven annual bonus
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Priority Pass
• Travel upgrades

About the Company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source and the publisher of Ubuntu. The company is founder-led, profitable, and operates as a global distributed organization with over 1200 colleagues in more than 80 countries.