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Engineering experience What is your own experience and ideas around infrastructure defined in code for large scale SaaS operations? What practices are needed to guarantee effectiveness as well as quality? What tooling do you enjoy/prefer working with? Why? Describe your own experience on Site Reliability Engineering? What types of applications, systems or infrastructure have you managed? At what scale? What are the best practices that should be followed? What is your level of expertise in Linux system administration, monitoring and debugging? How familiar are you with Linux networking, including routing, firewalls, both on a local and global scale? Are you a high quality Python coder? What processes / automation have you implemented in Python? How do you review and make sense of large amounts of logs? What tooling do you prefer using? What is your most senior role in a software SRE/IT Operations organisation? Describe your span of control, and the diversity of products, functions and teams you led. Outline your thoughts on documentation and asset management in large-scale IT operations. What practices should teams follow? Outline your thoughts on security in software operations. How should engineers be lead to improve their security posture and awareness? Career development Describe your most enjoyable role you have had in your career. What made it enjoyable? Describe a time in your career that you found challenging. Why was it challenging? What changes did you make to meet the challenge? Describe your approach and experience sharing knowledge with other engineers? Can you give examples of technical innovations you have successfully championed in your team? What aspects of your performance do you think your colleagues would describe as extraordinary? Education We consider academic results in high school and university for all roles, regardless of seniority or department. To enjoy a long and varied career at Canonical, one would need to tackle problems that cannot be defined today! From engineering to marketing to operations and sales, we intensely value colleagues who are able to puzzle through difficult problems and find the optimal path forward. How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in maths and hard sciences? Which was your strongest? How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in languages and the arts? Which was your strongest? Please state your high school graduation results or university entrance results, along with the system used, and how to understand those. For example, in the US, you might give your SAT or ACT scores. In Germany, you might give your scores 1-5. What sort of high school student were you? Outside of class, what were your interests and hobbies? What would your high school peers remember you for, if we asked them? Which university and degree did you choose? What other universities did you consider, and why did you select that one? At university, did you do particularly well at any area of your degree? Overall, what was your degree result and how did that reflect on your ability? In high school and university, what did you achieve that was exceptional? What leadership roles did you take on during your education? Context Outline your thoughts on the mission of Canonical. What is it about the company's purpose and goals which is most appealing to you? What do you see as risky or unappealing? Who are Canonical's key competitors, and how should Canonical set about winning? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? What would you most want to change about Canonical? What gets you most excited about this role?
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Senior Site Reliability / Gitops Engineer

Interviewed at Canonical

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Feb 28, 2025

Engineering experience What is your own experience and ideas around infrastructure defined in code for large scale SaaS operations? What practices are needed to guarantee effectiveness as well as quality? What tooling do you enjoy/prefer working with? Why? Describe your own experience on Site Reliability Engineering? What types of applications, systems or infrastructure have you managed? At what scale? What are the best practices that should be followed? What is your level of expertise in Linux system administration, monitoring and debugging? How familiar are you with Linux networking, including routing, firewalls, both on a local and global scale? Are you a high quality Python coder? What processes / automation have you implemented in Python? How do you review and make sense of large amounts of logs? What tooling do you prefer using? What is your most senior role in a software SRE/IT Operations organisation? Describe your span of control, and the diversity of products, functions and teams you led. Outline your thoughts on documentation and asset management in large-scale IT operations. What practices should teams follow? Outline your thoughts on security in software operations. How should engineers be lead to improve their security posture and awareness? Career development Describe your most enjoyable role you have had in your career. What made it enjoyable? Describe a time in your career that you found challenging. Why was it challenging? What changes did you make to meet the challenge? Describe your approach and experience sharing knowledge with other engineers? Can you give examples of technical innovations you have successfully championed in your team? What aspects of your performance do you think your colleagues would describe as extraordinary? Education We consider academic results in high school and university for all roles, regardless of seniority or department. To enjoy a long and varied career at Canonical, one would need to tackle problems that cannot be defined today! From engineering to marketing to operations and sales, we intensely value colleagues who are able to puzzle through difficult problems and find the optimal path forward. How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in maths and hard sciences? Which was your strongest? How did you rank in your high school, in your final year in languages and the arts? Which was your strongest? Please state your high school graduation results or university entrance results, along with the system used, and how to understand those. For example, in the US, you might give your SAT or ACT scores. In Germany, you might give your scores 1-5. What sort of high school student were you? Outside of class, what were your interests and hobbies? What would your high school peers remember you for, if we asked them? Which university and degree did you choose? What other universities did you consider, and why did you select that one? At university, did you do particularly well at any area of your degree? Overall, what was your degree result and how did that reflect on your ability? In high school and university, what did you achieve that was exceptional? What leadership roles did you take on during your education? Context Outline your thoughts on the mission of Canonical. What is it about the company's purpose and goals which is most appealing to you? What do you see as risky or unappealing? Who are Canonical's key competitors, and how should Canonical set about winning? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? What would you most want to change about Canonical? What gets you most excited about this role?

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