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Canonical

Posted Nov 3

Cloud Engineering Manager

Lead the engineers running managed OpenStack and Kubernetes clouds for customers worldwide

AnywhereAsyncAny country, as long as you like

The listing says the role is globally remote, with a team spread across 75+ countries.

How long can you stay where you're going?
  • Twice-yearly team sprints
  • USD 2,000 learning budget
  • Annual bonus or commission

The role

Canonical needs a manager for its BootStack team, which runs customer private clouds from Kubernetes to OpenStack. You'll lead the engineers behind day-to-day managed services and keep delivery on track against customer SLAs.

What you'll do

  • 1Manage a growing team of cloud engineers across development and operations
  • 2Track team health indicators and put disciplined engineering processes in place
  • 3Meet service level agreements on customer deployments around the globe
  • 4Represent the BootStack team to customers, stakeholders and other teams
  • 5Keep the team focused on priorities, milestones and deliverables

What they're looking for

Must-haves

  • Degree or equivalent in a technology field
  • Proven OpenStack experience
  • Software delivery in Python, Go, C, C++ or Java, and/or managing operations teams
  • Experience managing distributed teams and agile methods
  • Comfortable with travel of roughly 20% or less for events and customers

Nice to have

  • Linux system administration, especially Ubuntu or Debian

The company

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Canonical

Profitable open source firm in 75+ countries

Canonical publishes Ubuntu and provides open source software to enterprises and cloud providers. It has 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries, is founder-led and profitable, and has been remote since 2004.

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