SRE Engineering Manager (Europe/Middle East/Africa) - remote

Canonical

Posted 4 years ago

Kubernetes Java Python C++ Linux Testing Agile Cloud Less Sre Ubuntu Product System Distributed Openstack

What is Canonical?
Ubuntu is the fastest growing Linux distribution, with over 20 million users in just a few years. The project is aimed at reducing barriers to innovation globally by providing free access to an open technology platform. Canonical delivers products built on the Ubuntu platform to customers around the globe.

Job Summary:

The IS Foundations Team at Canonical supports and maintains all of Canonical’s production services. IS team members use real-life operational experiences to contribute to product improvements. The IS team at Canonical runs the services used by over 60 million Ubuntu users.

From Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between, you’ll be working with the latest technology in a fast-paced engineering environment. As an SRE Engineering Manager for the IS team, you will be responsible for managing the engineers that oversee the day-to-day operations and development of all of the services that Canonical runs. This includes customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with internal customers, product engineering, and development groups is critical to success.

As an Engineering Manager you will:

Manage a growing engineering team to optimize the quality and velocity of both development and operations
Mentor engineers to improve their skills and make the team more efficient.
Identify and measure team health indicators
Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes
Represent the IS Foundations team with respect to stakeholders, customers, and internal 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

The successful Engineering Manager candidate will have:

Bachelors (or equivalent) Degree level education in a technology field.
Proven track record of at least 5 years professional experience of either, software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar and managing operations teams
Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
Experience with Linux system administration, Ubuntu/Debian a plus
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
Ability to travel to team &company events (Less than 10%)

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