Alliances Field Engineer
Job description
An Alliances Field Engineer who helps Canonical's biggest partners (OEMs, GSIs, ISVs, channel and public cloud partners) understand and adopt Canonical's open source platform, architecting joint cloud and data center solutions. The role is home-based and hiring worldwide.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- 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
- Support various alliances and partners of Canonical to adopt our products and technologies
- Help business leaders to define joint go-to-market programs with partners from the technical standpoint
What we're looking for
- 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
Your team
worldwide field engineering team
Our worldwide field engineering team apply expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AI/MLOps and a wide range of associated technologies.
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
- Performance-driven annual bonus
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud. It is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
Mission
Changing the world on a daily basis through the global move to open source
Key facts
- 1000+ colleagues
- 2004
- open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries
- Very few roles based in offices
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder led and profitable
Partners & customers
What they value
- Excellence
- Do the best thing for partners and customers, regardless of company interests
- Fairness globally
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background