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Posted Jan 30, 2025IoT Solutions Architecture Manager (Americas only)
at Canonical
On-site
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of Field engineers, ranging from graduate to senior, in the areas of Presales and Professional Services
- Solve customer problems by promoting our technologies and being a trusted advisor
- 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
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
- Canonical provides the base Ubuntu OS and kernel, with secure update and management mechanisms.
- They are accomplished technologists that take a hands-on approach to embedded Linux strategy and delivery.
- They have a passion to help customers achieve ambitious technical and business goals, and to show how the Canonical approach to open source and connected devices brings best-of-breed thinking to the emerging field of edge compute.
- They also care to develop their colleagues, helping them deepen their understanding of the technology, their ability to manage time, and their awareness of customer business thinking for continuous improvement and personal development.
- This career opportunity requires a unique blend of skills. Successful candidates will know Linux well and be proficient coders and scripters. They will have
- experience of low-level Linux boot, BIOS, firmware and embedded software development methodologies.
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Extensive embedded Linux experience - Yocto or other Extensive Linux
- experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust
- Experience with customer engagements
- An ability to communicate the business benefits of technology
- Other desirable traits include RTOS experience, additional languages (both the programming and human kinds), and previous
- experience working in a remote-first, diverse, distributed company. What we offer you
- As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
Benefits
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
- Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- The company is founder-led, profitable and growing.
- We are hiring an IoT Solutions Architecture Manager to lead a regionally-focused team of Field engineers in Presales and Professional Services activities, by helping customers with solution architecture, design and delivery.
- Location: This is a remote role, running a team in one of three Geos, Americas, EMEA or APAC.
- Our Internet of Things mission is to enable companies to make fleets of very secure connected devices.
- Our customers create mission-critical control systems, gateways and appliances that need to meet stringent quality and security requirements, and we aspire to bring this level of security to the wider consumer electronics and device market.
- Our Field Engineers are thought leaders helping our customers solve hard problems.