Cloud Solutions Architect - Alliances
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Solutions-ArchitectCloud-ArchitectureField-EngineeringPre-SalesAlliance-ManagementCloud-Solution-ArchitectCloud-Solutions-ArchitectAlliance-Solutions-ArchitectCloud-Solutions-ArchitectureCloud-Alliances-ManagerCloud-Alliance-ManagementCloudtroubleshootingGCPEngineeringPostgreSQLKubernetesnetworkingautomationCassandradesigningbuildingMLflowMongoDBwrittenPythondesignLinuxSparkKafkaAzureNginxMachine LearningRustShell ScriptingAWSFulltime
Key highlights
- Remote/Home-based worldwide
- Up to 30% global travel
- USD 2,000 annual learning budget
- Performance-driven annual bonus
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, known for Ubuntu. They are hiring a Cloud Solutions Architect in their Alliances team to help major partners (such as Intel, Nvidia, Google, Dell, HP, Accenture, and Tata) understand and embrace their open source platform for themselves and their customers. As part of the worldwide field engineering team, the role involves applying expert insights to real-world customer problems to enable the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AI/MLOps and associated technologies. The role supports OEM, GSI, ISV, Channel partners, and Public Cloud alliance partners to adopt products and define joint go-to-market programs from a technical standpoint.
Responsibilities
- Understand Ubuntu, Linux, networking and services in real-world environments
- Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, OpenStack, Ceph, and Spark either On-Premises or in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Architect and integrate popular open source software such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra and NGINX
- Help partners to offer and architect joint solutions utilizing Canonical’s technologies on top of the public clouds and in the data center
- Design and publish joint Reference Architectures and perform technical validations with various partners
- Prepare and run onboarding sessions/workshops with various partners’ teams to promote Canonical products and solutions
Requirements
- Extensive experience with Linux (Ubuntu preferred), Kubernetes, Ceph, software automation
- Experience designing and implementing solutions on top of public or private clouds
- Python and bash understanding, troubleshooting skills
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- High motivation, ability to multi-task and follow-up reliably on commitments
- Interest in customer-facing engagement, including pitching, demonstrating and understanding customer environment and needs
- Ability to travel globally up to 30% of the time
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related technical field experience
Nice to have
- Interest in new technologies like LXD, Juju and Snaps
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity 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
Additional details
- Location: This is a home-based role, we are hiring worldwide.
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
- Originally posted on Himalayas