Alliances Field Engineer

The role

You will support various alliances and partners to adopt Canonical products and technologies. You will help business leaders define joint go-to-market programs and architect cloud infrastructure solutions.

What you will do

• Understand Ubuntu, Linux, networking and services in real-world environments
• Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, OpenStack, Ceph, and Spark
• Architect and integrate popular open source software such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra and NGINX
• Help partners to offer and architect joint solutions utilizing Canonical’s technologies
• Design and publish joint Reference Architectures and perform technical validations
• Prepare and run onboarding sessions/workshops with various partners’ teams

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience with Linux, Kubernetes, Ceph, software automation
• Experience designing and implementing solutions on top of public or private clouds
• Python and bash understanding
• Troubleshooting skills
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• High motivation, ability to multi-task and follow-up reliably on commitments
• Interest in customer-facing engagement, including pitching, demonstrating and understanding customer environment and needs
• Ability to travel globally up to 30% of the time
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related technical field experience

Nice to have

• Ubuntu preferred
• Interest in new technologies like LXD, Juju and Snaps

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
• Performance-driven annual bonus

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries.