Cloud Field Engineering Manager

March 16

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We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.

Open Source • Certification • OpenStack • Software Development • Containers

501 - 1000 employees

📋 Description

• This is an opportunity to run a field engineering team, helping customers understand and implement Canonical's open source solutions in public clouds and in their own data centers. • We work across the entire spectrum of cloud offerings, from Ubuntu itself to virtualisation and private cloud, Kubernetes, and the implementation of sophisticated open source solutions such as MLops platforms, data platforms and more. • We believe that Engineering Managers should be outstanding engineers themselves. They should feel completely at home troubleshooting technical issues and having technical presales conversations with customers. • The Field Engineering team is our team of cloud solutions architects at Canonical, working directly with our customers, designing private and public cloud solutions fitting their workload needs. • A Cloud Field Engineering Manager is responsible for line management and career guidance. The ability to develop engineering talent, to represent your team from a technical perspective, and to drive collaboration with other teams and customers are all critical to success in this role. • You are also expected to actively participate in technical presales to help our department achieve our quarterly goals.

🎯 Requirements

• Knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies, such as Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ceph, etc. • Practical knowledge of Linux and networking • Experience in technical presales • You are a dynamic person who loves to jump in new projects and interact with people • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English • Passion and a track record of developing and growing people • Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring engineers • Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results • An exceptional academic track record from high school and, preferably, university as well • Willingness to travel up to 40% of the time. Field Engineers attend internal company events, external tech events and customer meetings.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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