GitOps Engineering Manager
Job description
Engineering manager role leading a distributed GitOps/devops team within Canonical's IS organization, focused on infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native operations and managed services. The manager leads a team in their time zone and reports to a global director.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · APAC, EMEA
What you'll do
- Lead your team in daily agile devops practices
- Represent the IS team to stakeholders, customers, and internal teams
- Organize, coordinate and drive internal projects
- Mentor engineers to improve their skills
- Identify and measure team health indicators
- Implement structured engineering and operations processes
- 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
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Proven experience of software delivery using infrastructure as code
- Proven experience managing devops teams for SAAS or similar offerings
- Understanding of testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
- Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems
- Experience with cloud topologies and technologies
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Nice to have
- Experience with Ubuntu system administration
- Experience with agile software development methodologies
- Experience working in and managing distributed teams
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 Program
- 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 for global enterprise and technology markets
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
To pioneer and prove new and better approaches to large-scale IS and to be at the forefront of the global move to open source.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open-source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity
- Fairness