Key skills
GoCI/CD systemsContainer managementLinux systems administrationContainer images experienceTechnical communicationTeam collaborationMentoringDocumentationKubernetesDockerJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitHubAgileCI/CDCommunication
About this role
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. In this role, you'll be developing tools and technology for building and maintaining a new generation of Ubuntu-based container images, ensuring high quality and a seamless user experience.
Responsibilities:
- Build robust, scalable, leading-edge container images
- Work on automated Ci/CD processes for building, testing and publishing our container images
- Write tools and tests for assessing security compliance and cloud-native compatibility
- Work in Go to deliver new functionalities to our container-building tools
- Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
- Provide technical feedback for the team's decision-making process
- Engage with the open-source community as a subject-matter expert
- Grow our knowledge base and write documentation
- Work in a collaborative, agile and globally distributed environment
- Mentor and help hiring
- Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events
Requirements:
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You are a team player and have experience in collaborative development
- You have worked with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI, etc.)
- You have a track record of delivering timely, high-quality software
- You have experience with container images and containerised operations
- You master at least one container management/orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- You have significant experience with Go
- You are experienced with Linux systems administration and package management
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical concepts
- You bring clarity to technical and engineering discussions
- You are someone who strongly believes that sharing is caring, and knowledge is power
- Your skills range from those of a Graduate to a mid-senior Software Engineer
- You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree