Cloud Professional Services Manager
Job Description
The Field Engineering team is our team of cloud solutions architects at Canonical, working directly with our customers, designing private and public cloud solutions fitting their workload needs. The portfolio of products includes on-premise cloud solutions such as Openstack, MicroCloud and Ceph, and solutions that could be deployed either on-premises or in public clouds such as Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Spark, PostgreSQL, etc. The team works hands-on with the technologies by deploying, testing and handing over the solution to our support or managed services team at the end of a project. Managers and team members also take part in presales conversations to provide technical advice during the sales process. A Cloud Professional Services Manager is responsible for line management and career guidance. The ability to develop engineering talent, to represent your team from a technical perspective, and to drive collaboration with other teams and customers are all critical to success in this role. You are also expected to actively participate in technical presales to help our department achieve our quarterly goals.
Requirement(s)
Knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies, such as Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ceph, etc. Practical knowledge of Linux and networking Experience in technical presales You are a dynamic person who loves to jump in new projects and interact with people Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English Passion and a track record of developing and growing people Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring engineers Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results An exceptional academic track record from high school and, preferably, university as well Willingness to travel up to 40% of the time. Field Engineers attend internal company events, external tech events and customer meetings. Additional skills that you might also bring Second language - Spanish or French preferred Python knowledge Experience collaborating with external partners Experience collaborating with several internal teams and providing stakeholder feedback for engineering roadmaps
