Cloud Engineering Manager
Job description
Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, responsible for managing engineers who oversee day-to-day managed service of customer environments on private infrastructure. The role combines team management, managed services operations, and product improvement engineering.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
What you'll do
- 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're looking for
- 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
- 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
Nice to have
- Experience with Linux system administration, Ubuntu/Debian a plus
Your team
BootStack team
Designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers, from Kubernetes to OpenStack.
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
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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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 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Mission
To be at the forefront of the global move to open source, changing the world of software through Ubuntu, the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office-based roles
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background
- Fair consideration for all applicants