Latest Vacancies at Canonical Nigeria

Job Description

• As an engineering manager you need to bring both technical and management skills to the leadership of your team.
• You will also need to represent the team in direct partner engagement.
• You’ll be responsible for the stability and functionality that our cloud users have come to expect.
• You will strive to automate the delivery of existing and new Ubuntu image products applied to all modern workloads from web servers to GPU-aided AI for servers, VM’s and containers.
• As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical.
• As a lead for strong 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 strategy and execution.
• We work in Python and Golang, and expect engineering managers to be fluent in the language, architecture and components that their team is building with. Code reviews and architectural leadership are part of the job.
• As manager, the commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality and performance optimisation are equally important technical responsibilities, as is the requirement for fair and clear management, and the obligation to ensure a high performing team.

Responsibilities
What you’ll do:

• Build and lead a team of engineers in your timezone
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team’s goals
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Lead modern, agile software development practices
• Ensure 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
• Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing and publication pipelines
• Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners
• Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
• Software development experience in Python or Golang
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Practical experience with at least one of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS

What Canonical Offers

• Personal learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel

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Job Description

• This role is to lead the team to design and build images, tools, technology, and community processes.
• This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineering manager, or exceptional engineer looking to take on management responsibilities, who is passionate about open source quality, community, containers, devops and cloud.
• Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical.
• To lead this team successfully you will need to manage high quality open source engineering, demonstrate deep insights into container-based devops, and engage openly with our community.
• Your time will be split between people management, daily development activities, and direct partner engagement.
• As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to your team: ensuring that they grow as engineers, do valuable work, and find satisfaction in their career at Canonical.
• We expect managers to demonstrate technical leadership so a solid background in software development is required, to challenge and grow your team members.

Responsibilities
What you’ll do

• Build and lead a distributed team of engineers in your time zone
• Hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by contributing directly to your team’s goals
• Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
• Estimate the engineering effort for roadmap goals and customer projects
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, company management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Play an active part in the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Build robust, scalable, leading-edge container images
• Build automated, reliable container delivery, testing and publication pipelines
• Engage with the open source community on a daily basis, including them deeply in our processes
• Engage professionally with customers and commercial partners to tell the story of this work
• Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it well
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You have some experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
• You have a track record of delivering timely, high quality software
• You have experience with Docker images and containerised operations
• You have experience with Python
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical concepts
• You bring clarity to technical and engineering discussions
• You have practical experience with Kubernetes
• You are familiar with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Amazon Web Services
• You understand the current state of the art in OCI image building
• You have experience working in an agile development environment

What Canonical Offers

• Learning and development, with annual budget for professional development
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Work remotely with a talented, distributed global team