Engineering Manager, Managed Services

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in 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.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager ...

This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud technologies to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products. If you have an affinity for open source development and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. From Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between, you’ll be working with the latest technology in a fast-paced engineering environment. As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will be responsible for managing the engineers that oversee day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is critical to success.

Location: This is a globally remote role.

The role entails

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

What we are looking for in you

Bachelors (or equivalent) education in a technology field

Proven track record of professional experience of either software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar and/or managing operations teams

Proven experience with OpenStack

Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality

Experience with Linux system administration, Ubuntu/Debian a plus

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

Travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less

What we offer colleagues

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

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

Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet c