Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

As the IS Architect, you'll be in a unique position to improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies they're based on. You do this by advising System Reliability Engineers (SRE) and Data Centre Engineers (DCE) about best practices, and make informed decisions on technology choices in all aspects of cloud infrastructure and services. You will coach the IS team on automation, reliability, operational/technical scalability, network infrastructure and security.
This is a home-based position, with twice-annual travel to company events totalling 2-4 weeks per year.

Key responsibilities
• 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
• Own the design of the coming generations of global data centres and infrastructure
• 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 worlds largest companies, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems
• Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures
• Analyse 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
• Provide assistance and work with globally distributed engineering, operations, and support peers

Valued Skills and Experience
• Bachelor's degree or greater, preferably in computer science or related engineering field
• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies & operation
• Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls, internet transit and large scale/bandwidth networking.
• Hands-on experience of automatic administration of enterprise Linux servers at scale
• Experience dealing with significant production outages, incident response and post-mortems
• The ability to see the big picture in all the details
• A passion for writing, sharing, and maintaining enterprise open-source software solutions
• Strong modern software engineering background (peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI/CD, Agile)
• Strong knowledge of best practices in data centre design with regards to networking and hardware choices.
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person
Be inspired by the needs of fast-changing environments
Happy to work within distributed teams
A willingness to be flexible and able to learn new things quickly
Be familiarized and passionate about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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