Careers at Canonical

What you'll do

• Lead a team of remote engineers
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices
• Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
• Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
• Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who you are

• You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• You have experience programming in C and/or Go.

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What Your Day Will Look Like

• Match customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF/NFVi/NFVO/VNFM/VIM/MEC space
• Provide technical pre-sales consulting to Service Provider teams
• Design and implement telco-grade open source multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds
• Investigate, report and/or fix software defects uncovered during customer deployments
• Demonstrate advanced Infrastructure as code (IaC) techniques relevant to telco
• Architect and implement advanced, resilient Service Provider Cloud and Application solutions
• Design and deliver software defined infrastructure with OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS and Ceph
• Learn model-driven operations with Juju charms for Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NGINX, and more
• Help customers adopt advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions
• Learn from customer engagements and drive meaningful product improvements
• Shape our roadmap to accelerate our growth in the telco market

What We Are Looking For In You

• Python software development experience
• A thorough understanding of the telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC space
• Technical understanding of key telco technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SRIOV, DPDK, etc
• A thorough working understanding of the architectures and infrastructure of MNOs and CSPs
• Working knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS
• Understanding of best practices for open source technology in telco virtualisation
• Working knowledge of Linux, Openstack and Kubernetes networking
• A passion to automate and improve all aspects of open source products and tooling
• Ability to lead complex projects from start to finish
• A collaborative attitude with a keen eye on customer success
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Able to travel up to 50% of the time for events, customer meetings, project delivery

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Widely spoken second language such as Japanese, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese
• Track record of open source contributions

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What you'll do:

• Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications
• Work in Python to design and deliver open source code
• Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, Hadoop and Spark either On-Premises or in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Work from the comfort of your home
• Global travel up to 25% of time for internal and external events

Who you are:

• University degree in Computer Science or related software engineering expertise
• You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies, such as Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ceph, etc.
• You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking
• You have Intermediate to Advanced level of Python programming skills
• You are a dynamic person who loves to jump in new projects and interact with people
• You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (English)
• You have great organisational skills and follow-up reliably on commitments
• You speak a second language - French, German, Italian, Arabic or Spanish

What you'll learn

• OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructure
• Linux Ubuntu and networking knowledge
• Wide range of open source applications and skills
• Work directly with customers in a range of different businesses
• Real-life and hands-on exposure to a wide range of emerging technologies and tools

We offer:

• Learning and development tuition reimbursement
• 18 weeks parental leave (USA)
• Diversity Resource Groups
• Work from home
• Competitive salary
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel