Engineering Manager, Managed Services

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring an Engineering Manager ... This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud technologies to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products. If you have an affinity for open source development and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical. The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. From Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between, you’ll be working with the latest technology in a fast-paced engineering environment. As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will be responsible for managing the engineers that oversee day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is critical to success. Location: This is a globally remote role. The role entails • Manage a growing engineering team to optimise the quality and velocity of both development and operations • Identify and measure team health indicators • Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes • Represent the BootStack team with respect to stakeholders, customers, and external 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 What we are looking for in you • Bachelors (or equivalent) education in a technology field • Proven track record of professional experience of either software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++ Job description: Home based - Worldwide