Location: Limassol; Nicosia; Athens; Thessaloniki; Fully Remote - in other eligible locations
Workplace: hybrid
The Role:
As our Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. If you are a highly self-motivated professional who embraces DevOps culture, has experience with AWS services and technologies and is passionate about learning, automating, innovating and working in a highly collaborative environment, we'd like to hear from you!
The main responsibilities of the position include:
Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations
Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation
Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability
Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved
Develop and maintain existing /GitLab CI pipeline libraries
Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise
Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry
Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments
Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to help them develop
Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Teams about the platforms used-for and hosted-by our team. Key tools and concepts in this space are: Gitlab, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Istio Service Mesh, Kubernetes , Kafka, ELK
Work with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinised as appropriate for their use case
Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager
Main requirements:
University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline
7+ years’ experience within the following areas: Cloud ( AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking
Enterprise-level Kubernetes experience
Solid Linux administration skills
Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management
Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines
Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic
The following will be considered an advantage:
Familiarity with database concepts
Working experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably AWS)
Experience with Apache Kafka configuration and troubleshooting
Experience with ELK configuration and troubleshooting
Scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.)
The Hiring Experience: What Awaits You
Show Your Skills – Online Technical Challenge
Let’s Connect – Intro Chat with Talent Acquisition
Deep Dive – First Interview with Your Future Team
Final Connection – Final Interview
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ГибридseniorLimassol; Nicosia; Athens; Thessaloniki; Fully Remote - in other eligible locations
Location: Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
The Canonical MAAS team is responsible for delivering our
Metal As A Service
hyperscale provisioning technology. Ubuntu strives to be the most scalable, cloud ready server distribution and MAAS is our platform to get it there. MAAS is a rapidly evolving software stack written in Python and Go, and we are looking for experienced software engineers who understand performance at scale, networking, storage and usability.
Applicants should be passionate about the future of Ubuntu and be able to show technical leadership with a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion. This position requires international travel several times a year.
This role entails
Develop MAAS core components and features to make MAAS the #1 bare metal cloud system.
Shape the architecture of MAAS to make it simpler, faster and easier to use.
Collaborate with other teams to ensure MAAS works well with other tools and is released on time.
Contribute your improvements to our continuous integration environment, tests and practices, to maintain fast feedback and good test coverage.
Contribute to documentation of current and existing features, making it world-class resource for Data Centre operators and users.
Provide technical communication and collaboration with other teams where appropriate.
Take personal ownership of problems and drive them to solutions.
Travel internationally
a few times a year to meet and collaborate with your and other teams.
What we are looking for in you
Passionate about open source software, Linux, and Data Centre automation
Solid track record of professional software development experience in Python, Go for back-end roles, or TypeScript, React for front-end roles.
Capacity to learn quickly about new systems and techniques
Excellent logic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
Strong English language communication skills - both written and verbal
Experience with Linux server technologies, including but not limited to Virtualization (KVM), Containers (LXC), etc.
You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
Knowledge of network technologies, including PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, NTP
Some experience with Baseboard Management Controllers and Protocols (Redfish, IPMI, AMT and others)
Strong experience with networking, storage technologies and Cloud hosting and infrastructure.
Ideally, experience of large-scale physical server provisioning and automation, including rapid deployment, configuration, management and service orchestration.
Familiarity with some of the open source development tools and methodologies used in creation of several Ubuntu projects (MAAS, Juju, Ubuntu Server, LXD, Ubuntu Core), such as Launchpad, Debian packaging tools (APT, dpkg) and snapcraft.
An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university.
Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
What we offer colleagues
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
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
Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.
Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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