This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud technologies to build a career with Canonical and enhance the success of customers leveraging Ubuntu and open-source products. If you have an affinity for open-source development and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.
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The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will manage the engineers overseeing the day-to-day managed service of customer environments, customer service management, managed services operations, and pursuit of consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is critical to success.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a growing engineering team to optimize the quality and velocity of both development and operations.
- Identify and measure team health indicators.
- Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes.
- Represent the BootStack team with stakeholders, customers, and external teams.
- Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables.
- Work to meet service level agreements with customer deployments worldwide.
- Deliver quality managed services in a consistent, timely manner.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's (or equivalent) education in a technology field.
- Proven track record in software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar; and/or managing operations teams.
- Proven experience with OpenStack.
- Strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality.
- Experience with Linux system administration; Ubuntu/Debian is a plus.
- Strong communication and cooperation skills.
- Experience with agile software development methodologies.
- Experience working in and managing distributed teams.
- Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud topologies and technologies.
- Willingness to travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less.
Work Conditions:
- Remote, with twice-yearly in-person team sprints.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Performance-driven annual bonus.
- Annual compensation review and recognition rewards.
- Annual holiday leave.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Opportunities 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.
Language Requirements:
- Proficiency in English is essential.
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source, and it has been a remote-first company since 2004. We foster a workplace free from discrimination, celebrating diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds.
