This is an opportunity to lead a field engineering team at Canonical, helping customers understand and implement Canonical's open source solutions in public clouds and their own data centers. The role involves working across a range of cloud offerings, including Ubuntu, virtualization, Kubernetes, and sophisticated open source solutions.
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As a Cloud Field Engineering Manager, you will oversee the team of cloud solutions architects, designing private and public cloud solutions that fit customer workload needs. The role requires hands-on involvement with technologies and participation in technical presales to provide advice during the sales process.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing a diverse team of Field Engineers.
- Promoting Canonical's technologies as a trusted advisor to solve customer problems.
- Implementing disciplined engineering processes and measuring team health indicators.
- Collaborating with stakeholders, partners, and customers to represent your team and product effectively.
Location: Jiddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (Remote)
Work Conditions: Full-time, remote work, managing a team in your time zone. Willingness to travel up to 40% of the time for internal and external tech events and customer meetings.
Language Requirements: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are essential. A second language, such as Spanish or French, is preferred.
Candidate Profile:
We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and skills:
- Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies, including Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Ceph.
- Practical experience with Linux and networking.
- Experience in technical presales.
- A dynamic personality with a passion for developing and mentoring team members.
- An organized approach to delivering high-quality results.
Additional Skills:
- Python knowledge is a plus.
- Experience collaborating with external partners and providing stakeholder feedback for engineering roadmaps.
What We Offer:
Canonical provides a competitive compensation package, including:
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- Annual compensation review
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Recognition rewards
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity for travel to meet colleagues from your team and others
We believe that open source is transforming the tech sector and strive to make it easier, more reliable, and secure for deployment and development. Join us to shape the future of open source at Canonical.
