The company is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely utilized in breakthrough initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. With a pioneering approach to global distributed collaboration, we have over 1200 colleagues in more than 75 countries, emphasizing remote work and minimal office-based roles. Teams convene two to four times a year in various locations worldwide for strategy alignment.
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As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will have the opportunity to work with Linux and Cloud technologies and build a career at the company. This involves managing a growing engineering team that oversees the day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is crucial for success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and optimize a growing engineering team’s quality and velocity of both development and operations.
- Identify and measure team health indicators.
- Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes.
- Represent the BootStack team to stakeholders, customers, and external teams.
- Ensure focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables.
- Meet service level agreements with customer deployments globally.
- Deliver quality managed services consistently and timely.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's (or equivalent) education in a technology field.
- Proven track record in software delivery (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.
- Familiarity with agile software development methodologies.
- Experience managing distributed teams.
- Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems.
- Knowledge of cloud topologies and technologies.
- Willingness to travel to team and company events and customer meetings (roughly 20% or less).
What We Offer:
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping worldwide compensation. Benefits include:
- Distributed work environment with biannual in-person team sprints.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Annual compensation review and performance-driven bonuses.
- Recognition rewards.
- Annual holiday leave.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Wellness programs and support.
- Opportunities to travel to meet colleagues globally.
Language Requirements:
Proficiency in English is expected, additional language skills may be beneficial for communication with global teams and customers.
