Information Systems - Open Source Technical Architect at Canonical

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Canonical is hiring a information systems - open source technical architect focused on open-source architecture for information systems.

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Location: Remote
Advertised region: Home based - EMEA
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Linux

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Role overview

Canonical’s Information Systems team operates the infrastructure that builds, packages and distributes Ubuntu. The architect owns cloud and network design direction across this global internal platform.

The employer lists home-based work in EMEA with company-event travel of about four weeks per year.

Responsibilities

Define the technical vision and roadmap for an internal cloud, including reliability, resilience, scale, automation and self-service operation.
Guide SRE and data-center engineers, collaborate with cloud-operations software teams and security groups, and establish service architecture, playbooks and policies.
Analyze production incidents and improve the underlying design to prevent recurrence.

Qualifications

Requires extensive cloud operations knowledge, Linux networking, routing and firewall experience, and incident-response expertise.
The posting seeks clear English communication and a strong interest in open-source software and Ubuntu or Debian; software engineering and large-scale Linux administration are useful.

Technology in this role

Linux: Requires extensive cloud operations knowledge, Linux networking, routing and firewall experience, and incident-response expertise.

Benefits

Canonical lists a learning budget, annual compensation review, holiday leave, parental leave and assistance benefits, with periodic in-person team events.

About Canonical

Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds commercial and open-source technology for cloud, data, AI and connected-device environments. The company describes itself as globally distributed and says most colleagues work from home.

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Source checked: 2026-11-08