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We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of our on-premises Kubernetes-based data center infrastructure. This is a hands-on role encompassing physical hardware, virtualization, and cluster administration. You will ensure high availability, performance, and scalability while enabling secure and efficient workloads for both developers and operations.

Infrastructure Management (40%)

• Design and maintain server, storage, and networking infrastructure across 2–4 data center racks
• Manage rack layout, power distribution, and cooling systems
• Perform hardware lifecycle management and capacity planning
• Administer hypervisor environments (e.g., VMware vSphere, Proxmox, KVM)
• Implement and maintain software-defined networking (SDN) and storage platforms
• Deploy, monitor, and scale production Kubernetes clusters
• Implement RBAC, network policies, and secure baseline configurations
• Manage persistent storage using solutions such as Rook/Ceph or OpenEBS
• Ensure high availability, backup, and disaster recovery procedures

Monitoring & Performance Optimization (20%)

• Set up observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Define alerting, incident response, and SLA compliance (target 99.9%+ uptime)
• Conduct regular infrastructure performance tuning and cost/performance analysis
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize app performance and deployment
• Participate in on-call rotation and root cause analysis reviews
• Mentor junior engineers and promote operational best practices

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years in infrastructure or systems engineering roles
• 2+ years managing Kubernetes in production environments
• Experience with hands-on data center hardware installation and operations

Technical Skills

• Virtualization: VMware, KVM, or Proxmox
• Networking: VLANs, firewalls, TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing
• Storage: SAN, NAS, Ceph, distributed storage systems
• Scripting/Automation: Python, Bash, Go
• IaC Tools: Terraform, Ansible

Soft Skills

• Analytical and methodical troubleshooting skills
• Clear documentation and communication
• Ability to independently manage projects and priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS)
• Experience with bare-metal Kubernetes deployments
• Familiarity with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Knowledge of service mesh architectures
• Hardware vendor certifications (Dell, HPE, etc.)
• Competitive salary based on experience and skillset
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Annual training and certification budget
• Flexible working hours and on-call compensation
• Hands-on experience with leading open-source tools and infrastructure

Working Conditions

• On-site presence required for hardware maintenance and installation
• Participation in on-call rotation (approximately 1 week per month)
• Occasional after-hours maintenance windows
• Physical ability to lift and rack equipment (up to 50 lbs)

Submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your experience in Kubernetes, infrastructure, or platform engineering. Highlight any relevant projects, open-source contributions, or certifications.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of our on-premises Kubernetes-based data center infrastructure. This is a hands-on role encompassing physical hardware, virtualization, and cluster administration. You will ensure high availability, performance, and scalability while enabling secure and efficient workloads for both developers and operations.

Infrastructure Management (40%)

• Design and maintain server, storage, and networking infrastructure across 2-4 data center racks
• Manage rack layout, power distribution, and cooling systems
• Perform hardware lifecycle management and capacity planning
• Administer hypervisor environments (e.g., VMware vSphere, Proxmox, KVM)
• Implement and maintain software-defined networking (SDN) and storage platforms
• Deploy, monitor, and scale production Kubernetes clusters
• Implement RBAC, network policies, and secure baseline configurations
• Manage persistent storage using solutions such as Rook/Ceph or OpenEBS
• Ensure high availability, backup, and disaster recovery procedures

Monitoring & Performance Optimization (20%)

• Set up observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Define alerting, incident response, and SLA compliance (target 99.9%+ uptime)
• Conduct regular infrastructure performance tuning and cost/performance analysis
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize app performance and deployment
• Participate in on-call rotation and root cause analysis reviews
• Mentor junior engineers and promote operational best practices

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years in infrastructure or systems engineering roles
• 2+ years managing Kubernetes in production environments
• Experience with hands-on data center hardware installation and operations

Technical Skills

• Virtualization: VMware, KVM, or Proxmox
• Networking: VLANs, firewalls, TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing
• Storage: SAN, NAS, Ceph, distributed storage systems
• Scripting/Automation: Python, Bash, Go
• IaC Tools: Terraform, Ansible

Soft Skills

• Analytical and methodical troubleshooting skills
• Clear documentation and communication
• Ability to independently manage projects and priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS)
• Experience with bare-metal Kubernetes deployments
• Familiarity with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Knowledge of service mesh architectures
• Hardware vendor certifications (Dell, HPE, etc.)
• Competitive salary based on experience and skillset
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Annual training and certification budget
• Flexible working hours and on-call compensation
• Hands-on experience with leading open-source tools and infrastructure

Working Conditions

• On-site presence required for hardware maintenance and installation
• Participation in on-call rotation (approximately 1 week per month)
• Occasional after-hours maintenance windows
• Physical ability to lift and rack equipment (up to 50 lbs)

Submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your experience in Kubernetes, infrastructure, or platform engineering. Highlight any relevant projects, open-source contributions, or certifications.

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.

We are hiring a Software Engineer for Ceph & Distributed Storage. As part of Cloud Engineering, you'll be building modelling software to drive systems such as OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage and Ceph. You'll be engineering solutions to scale in production, working with our field teams to ensure we're meeting the needs of customers looking to adopt cutting-edge technology.

Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.

This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in EMEA or the Americas regions

What your day will look like

• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage
  
  

• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
• You have experience with Ceph storage
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
• Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

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.

We are hiring a Software Engineer for Ceph & Distributed Storage. As part of Cloud Engineering, you'll be building modelling software to drive systems such as OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage and Ceph. You'll be engineering solutions to scale in production, working with our field teams to ensure we're meeting the needs of customers looking to adopt cutting-edge technology.

Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.

This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in EMEA or the Americas regions

What your day will look like

• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage
  
  

• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
• You have experience with Ceph storage
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
• Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

We are currently seeking a qualified Senior Project Engineer – Infrastructure to join our Infrastructure Division in Oman. As a Senior Project Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the region’s most exciting infrastructure design projects.

Languages: Arabic - Fluent / Excellent; English - Fluent / Excellent

Any

Any

Job Skills

Preference will be given to qualified candidates with experience in:

• All-round knowledge of infrastructure design related to rail and transportation projects
• Conducting topographic evaluations, route selection, and development of concept and detailed designs
• Planning, organizing, and monitoring infrastructure services
• Preparing tender proposals and assisting in presentations and meetings for clients
• Planning and managing projects within budgets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering with at least 8 years of post-graduate experience. Bi-lingual skills in English and Arabic are preferred. Membership in a recognized professional association is advantageous.

About The Company

Founded in 1964, KEO delivers world-class design and management services. We offer award-winning architectural design, progressive infrastructure engineering, and top-ranked project and construction management, known for quality and professionalism. KEO is among the largest AEP/PMCM firms and has been ranked in ENR’s top 200 International Design Firms and Top 20 International PM firms from . BD World ranked KEO #40 in the Top 100 Architects globally.

KEO aims to be recognized as a leading project consultancy firm, contributing to client success worldwide.

We are currently seeking a qualified Senior Project Engineer - Infrastructure to join our Infrastructure Division in Oman. As a Senior Project Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the region's most exciting infrastructure design projects.

Languages: Arabic - Fluent / Excellent; English - Fluent / Excellent

Any

Any

Job Skills

Preference will be given to qualified candidates with experience in:

• All-round knowledge of infrastructure design related to rail and transportation projects
• Conducting topographic evaluations, route selection, and development of concept and detailed designs
• Planning, organizing, and monitoring infrastructure services
• Preparing tender proposals and assisting in presentations and meetings for clients
• Planning and managing projects within budgets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering with at least 8 years of post-graduate experience. Bi-lingual skills in English and Arabic are preferred. Membership in a recognized professional association is advantageous.

About The Company

Founded in 1964, KEO delivers world-class design and management services. We offer award-winning architectural design, progressive infrastructure engineering, and top-ranked project and construction management, known for quality and professionalism. KEO is among the largest AEP/PMCM firms and has been ranked in ENR's top 200 International Design Firms and Top 20 International PM firms from . BD World ranked KEO in the Top 100 Architects globally.

KEO aims to be recognized as a leading project consultancy firm, contributing to client success worldwide.

Canonical is building a comprehensive automation suite to provide multi-cloud and on-premise data solutions for the enterprise. The data platform team is a collaborative team that develops a full range of data stores and data technologies, spanning from big data, through NoSQL, cache-layer capabilities, and analytics; all the way to structured SQL engines.

We are facing the interesting problem of fault-tolerant mission-critical distributed systems and intend to deliver the world's best automation solution for delivering data platforms.

We have a number of openings ranging anywhere from junior to senior level. We will help you identify a suitable position depending on your experience and interests. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of open-source community dynamics and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organisations.

Location: This is a Globally remote role

What your day will look like

The data platform team is responsible for the automation of data platform operations. This includes ensuring fault-tolerant replication, TLS, installation, and much more; but also provides domain-specific expertise on the actual data system to other teams within Canonical. This role is focused on the creation and automation of features of data platforms, not analysing the data in them.

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality, idiomatic Python code to create new features
• Debug issues and interact with upstream communities publicly
• Work with helpful and talented engineers including experts in many fields
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events
  
  

• Proven hands-on experience in software development using Python
• Proven hands-on experience in distributed systems
• Have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Experience operating and managing data platform technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Kafka, Yugabyte, Trino, Superset, Atlas, Ranger, and Redis
• Experience with Linux systems administration, package management, and operations
• Experience with the public cloud or a private cloud solution like OpenStack
• Experience with operating Kubernetes clusters and a belief that it can be used for serious persistent data services
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

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Canonical is building a comprehensive automation suite to provide multi-cloud and on-premise data solutions for the enterprise. The data platform team is a collaborative team that develops a full range of data stores and data technologies, spanning from big data, through NoSQL, cache-layer capabilities, and analytics; all the way to structured SQL engines.

We are facing the interesting problem of fault-tolerant mission-critical distributed systems and intend to deliver the world's best automation solution for delivering data platforms.

We have a number of openings ranging anywhere from junior to senior level. We will help you identify a suitable position depending on your experience and interests. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of open-source community dynamics and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organisations.

Location: This is a Globally remote role

What your day will look like

The data platform team is responsible for the automation of data platform operations. This includes ensuring fault-tolerant replication, TLS, installation, and much more; but also provides domain-specific expertise on the actual data system to other teams within Canonical. This role is focused on the creation and automation of features of data platforms, not analysing the data in them.

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality, idiomatic Python code to create new features
• Debug issues and interact with upstream communities publicly
• Work with helpful and talented engineers including experts in many fields
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events
  
  

• Proven hands-on experience in software development using Python
• Proven hands-on experience in distributed systems
• Have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Experience operating and managing data platform technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Kafka, Yugabyte, Trino, Superset, Atlas, Ranger, and Redis
• Experience with Linux systems administration, package management, and operations
• Experience with the public cloud or a private cloud solution like OpenStack
• Experience with operating Kubernetes clusters and a belief that it can be used for serious persistent data services
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Entry level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Canonical is building a comprehensive automation suite to provide multi-cloud and on-premise data solutions for the enterprise. The data platform team is a collaborative team that develops a full range of data stores and data technologies, spanning from big data, through NoSQL, cache-layer capabilities, and analytics; all the way to structured SQL engines.

We are facing the interesting problem of fault-tolerant mission-critical distributed systems and intend to deliver the world's best automation solution for delivering data platforms.

We have a number of openings ranging anywhere from junior to senior level. We will help you identify a suitable position depending on your experience and interests. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of open-source community dynamics and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organisations.

Location: This is a Globally remote role

What your day will look like

The data platform team is responsible for the automation of data platform operations. This includes ensuring fault-tolerant replication, TLS, installation, and much more; but also provides domain-specific expertise on the actual data system to other teams within Canonical. This role is focused on the creation and automation of features of data platforms, not analysing the data in them.

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality, idiomatic Python code to create new features
• Debug issues and interact with upstream communities publicly
• Work with helpful and talented engineers including experts in many fields
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events
  
  

• Proven hands-on experience in software development using Python
• Proven hands-on experience in distributed systems
• Have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Experience operating and managing data platform technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Kafka, Yugabyte, Trino, Superset, Atlas, Ranger, and Redis
• Experience with Linux systems administration, package management, and operations
• Experience with the public cloud or a private cloud solution like OpenStack
• Experience with operating Kubernetes clusters and a belief that it can be used for serious persistent data services
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events