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The role
Canonical, publisher of Ubuntu, is hiring a Cloud Field Engineer to help global companies adopt private cloud, Linux and cloud-native tooling. You will design, deploy and hand over customer solutions on OpenStack, Kubernetes and public clouds. The role is home-based with travel up to 25% of the time.
What you will do
- Design private and public cloud solutions to fit customer workloads
- Deploy and test solutions hands-on, then hand them over to support or managed services
- Work across the Linux stack, from kernel and networking to storage and applications
- Write Python to develop Kubernetes operators and open source infrastructure-as-code
- Architect OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, Hadoop and Spark on-premises or on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Coach colleagues and travel for events, up to 25% of the time
What they ask for
- University degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering expertise
- Solid knowledge of cloud concepts such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure and Ceph
- Practical knowledge of Linux and networking
- Intermediate to advanced Python
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English
- Able to travel globally up to 25% of the time
What they offer
- Home-based, distributed work
- Learning and development budget
- Annual compensation review and recognition rewards
- Holiday, maternity and paternity leave
- Twice-yearly in-person team sprints
- Performance-driven annual bonus
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