Open Source Technical Architect - Information Systems (Remote) Vacancy at Canonical Nigeria

Undergraduate Degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies & operation Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls, internet transit and large scale/bandwidth networking. Experience dealing with significant production outages, incident response and postmortems A passion for writing, sharing, and maintaining enterprise open-source software solutions Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person Be familiarized and passionate about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian. Nice-to-have skills: Modern software engineering background (peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI/CD, Agile) Hands-on experience of automatic administration of enterprise Linux servers at scale.

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 world's largest companies, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures Analyze 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.