Engineering Director, Multi-cloud Orchestrator (Golang) at Canonical Nigeria
Canonical Nigeria
Canonical delivers open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Engineering Director, Multi-cloud Orchestrator (Golang)
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Location: Lagos
Job Description
- Lead engineering across multiple teams on a large open source Golang project orchestrating complex, highly-concurrent distributed systems across the world – on Kubernetes, on clouds and on bare metal.
- This is an exceptionally challenging role that requires deep insights into the technical stack from kernel, through networking, to containers and Kubernetes.
- This leadership role requires an understanding of team dynamics and software engineering practices at the highest level.
- As an Engineering Director at Canonical you own both the product and the team, and are entrusted to ensure that they are continually improving, doing valuable work, and finding intellectual satisfaction at Canonical.
- Astute technical leadership and management acumen is needed to challenge and grow your teams.
- You will have the opportunity to influence culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your teams on strategy and execution.
What You’ll Do
- Build and lead globally distributed teams of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- Grow and develop new engineering managers to help create high-performing teams
- Effectively set and manage expectations with other internal organisations, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
- Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events.
Who You Are
- You love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development and organisational management
- You value getting things done by turning product vision into executable strategy
- You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring engineering managers towards delivering timely, high quality software together with them
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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