Telco Field Engineering Director

🕒 April 3

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔧 Field Service Engineer

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Canonical

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

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.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop managers and teams of Field engineers in the areas of Presales and Professional Services • Solve customer problems by promoting our technologies and being a trusted advisor • Work remotely in a single major time zone • Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback • Identify and measure team health indicators • Implement disciplined engineering processes • Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers • Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices • Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects • Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders

🎯 Requirements

• A thorough technical understanding of the telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC space and key telco cloud infrastructure technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SR-IOV, DPDK, etc • Familiarity with telco architecture and industry standards • Working knowledge of at least one of the following domains: Mobile Packet Core (4G/5G), Private Network, Radio Access Network (RAN), Voice, IP Backbone, VAS or OSS/BSS • 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 and managers • 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 25% of the time. Field Engineers attend internal company events, external tech events and customer meetings.

🏖️ 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 from your team and others • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events