Alliances Field Engineer

March 16

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Canonical

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Open Source • Cloud • AI

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

📋 Description

• Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. • Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. • The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. • Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. • We are hiring an Alliances Field Engineer to help our biggest partners understand and embrace our open source platform for themselves and their customers. • Our worldwide field engineering team apply expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AI/MLOps and a wide range of associated technologies. • We help global companies embrace public and private cloud infrastructure, cloud native operations, and open source applications.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience with Linux (Ubuntu preferred), 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 • Interest in new technologies like LXD, Juju and Snaps • Ability to travel globally up to 30% of the time • Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related technical field experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! • 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 from your team and others • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events