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Job Title: Cloud Field Engineering Manager
Job Summary
- The Field Engineering team is our team of cloud solutions architects at Canonical, working directly with our customers, designing private and public cloud solutions fitting their workload needs.
- The portfolio of products includes on-premise cloud solutions such as Openstack, MicroCloud and Ceph, and solutions that could be deployed either on-premises or in public clouds such as Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Spark, PostgreSQL, etc.
- The team works hands-on with the technologies by deploying, testing and handing over the solution to our support or managed services team at the end of a project. Managers and team members also take part in presales conversations to provide technical advice during the sales process.
- A Cloud Field Engineering Manager is responsible for line management and career guidance.
- The ability to develop engineering talent, to represent your team from a technical perspective, and to drive collaboration with other teams and customers are all critical to success in this role.
- You are also expected to actively participate in technical presales to help our department achieve our quarterly goals.
What your day will look like
- Lead and develop a team of Field engineers, ranging from graduate to senior, in the areas of Presales and Professional Services
- Solve customer problems by promoting our technologies and being a trusted advisor
- Work remotely in a single major time zone
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Identify and measure team health indicators
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders.
What we are looking for in you
- Knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies, such as Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ceph, etc.
- Practical knowledge of Linux and networking
- Experience in technical presales
- You are a dynamic person who loves to jump in new projects and interact with people
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Passion and a track record of developing and growing people
- Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring engineers
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
- An exceptional academic track record from high school and, preferably, university as well
- Willingness to travel up to 40% of the time. Field Engineers attend internal company events, external tech events and customer meetings.
Additional skills that you might also bring:
- Second language – Spanish or French preferred
- Python knowledge
- Experience collaborating with external partners
- Experience collaborating with several internal teams and providing stakeholder feedback for engineering roadmaps.
What we offer you
- 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 recognise 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
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.
Application Instructions:
The application deadline is NOT SPECIFIED. Therefore, Qualified and interested candidates can: “CLICK HERE TO APPLY ONLINE”. It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.
Website:
Official Job Website: https://canonical.com/
Job Features
Job Category | Field Engineer |