engineering
Posted Nov 20, 2025Cloud Field Engineering Manager
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
- Passion and a track record of developing and growing people •
Requirements
- We work across the entire spectrum of cloud offerings, from Ubuntu itself to virtualisation and private cloud, Kubernetes, and the implementation of sophisticated open source solutions such as MLops platforms, data platforms and more.
- They should contribute to project delivery themselves, but know that the technical contributions they bring are far less significant than their ability to shape the whole team’s direction, focus and delivery.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring engineers
- 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 What we offer you