Cloud Solutions Architect - Alliances
Job description
A Cloud Solutions Architect in Canonical's Alliances team, helping major partners understand and adopt Canonical's open source platform and architect joint cloud solutions. The role is home-based and open to candidates worldwide.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- 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
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
Alliances team
Worldwide field engineering team that supports OEM, GSI, ISV, Channel and Public Cloud alliance partners to adopt Canonical's products and 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, an open source platform widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. 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.
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
- Founder led and profitable
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
Partners & customers
What they value
- Excellence
- Do the best thing for partners and customers regardless of company interests
- Fairness globally
- Diversity