Director, DevOps Engineering at Canonical

Job Summary

• As the Director of DevOps Engineering, your primary responsibility is to the people you lead and support:
• Ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and finding satisfaction in their career at Canonical.
• As a lead for software engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members.
• You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on direction and execution.

Responsibilities
What you’ll do:

• Understand the global state of the art in open source operations
• Prioritize our efforts to raise the bar on complex software-defined infrastructure
• Ensure processes and training are in place for continuous improvement in our services
• Lead and develop three regional teams of engineers spanning all major time zones
• Hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering and operational teams
• Coordinate with management and external stakeholders or customers
• Advocate modern, agile software development practices
• Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational 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 organization
• Global travel up to 10% of the time for internal and external events

Requirements
Who you are:

• University Degree in Computer Science or related Software Engineering field
• Advanced level Python programming skills
• Experience running production operations as SAAS or IT with critical uptime requirements
• Experience running production operations for external customers and partners
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and practices
• Leadership ability and ability to set and maintain a high standard of excellence in operations
• You love developing and growing people and can demonstrate a track record of doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development 
• You have experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software developers
• You have clarity on the drivers of quality in software engineering and an ability to ensure that
• You are organized and want your team to deliver timely software releases
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You have a thorough understanding of modern infrastructure, including Kubernetes or OpenStack
• You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies
• You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking
• You have hands-on experience with software automation
• You are fluent and comfortable in cloud terminology

Skills:
What you will learn:

• OpenStack and Kubernetes in operation
• Wide range of open source applications and capabilities
• 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.