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Cloud Engineering Manager
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted today
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Globally remote position
- Requires proven OpenStack experience
- Includes performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget
- Requires up to 20% travel for team, company, and customer events
- Manages engineering team overseeing customer managed services on Kubernetes, OpenStack, and other distributed systems
Role overview
This is a globally remote Cloud Engineering Manager role on Canonical’s BootStack team, which designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for enterprise customers using technologies including Kubernetes, OpenStack, and other cutting-edge tools in a fast-paced engineering environment. The role involves managing a team of engineers responsible for overseeing day-to-day managed services of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations, and consistent product improvement engineering, while collaborating with customers, product engineering, and operations teams to deliver consistent, high-quality managed services that meet global service level agreements. It is suited for technologists with a passion for Linux, cloud, and open source technologies looking to build a career with a leading open source provider.
Responsibilities
- Manage a growing engineering team to optimise 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 respect to stakeholders, customers, and external teams
- Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
- Work to meet service level agreements with customer deployments around the globe
- Deliver quality managed services in a consistent, timely manner
- Manage engineers responsible for overseeing day-to-day managed services of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations, and consistent product improvement engineering
- Collaborate with customers, product engineering, and operations teams to drive success
Requirements
- Bachelor's (or equivalent) education in a technology field
- Proven track record of professional experience in either software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar languages, and/or managing operations teams
- Proven experience with OpenStack
- Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
- 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
Nice to have
- Experience with Linux system administration, Ubuntu/Debian a plus
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
- Annual personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Access to Team Member Assistance Program and Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets, with its Ubuntu platform widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives including public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Its customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers, as well as industry leaders across many sectors.
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution.
- Canonical is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
- This role is ideal for technologists with a passion for Linux and Cloud technologies seeking to build a career with Canonical and drive success for users of Ubuntu and open source products; those with an affinity for open source development and passion for technology will collaborate with top industry talent at the company.
- All benefits provided to team members reflect Canonical’s values and ideals.
- Canonical balances its benefits programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness for colleagues globally.
- Compensation is shaped by geographical location, experience, and performance for team members worldwide, and is reviewed annually for all team members (more frequently for graduates and associates) to recognize outstanding performance.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering a workplace free from discrimination where diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates better work environments and better products, and all applicants receive fair consideration regardless of identity.
- This position was originally posted on Himalayas.