Cloud Field Engineer

Canonical is hiring a Cloud Field Engineer to help global companies embrace the latest private cloud infrastructure, Linux, and cloud native operations, as well as open source applications. Canonical's team applies expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Linux Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and a wide range of associated technology. This role has very diverse responsibilities. Team members are Linux and cloud solutions architects for customers, designing private and public cloud solutions fitting their workload needs. They are the cloud consultants who work hands-on with the technologies by deploying, testing, and handing over the solution to the support or managed services team at the end of a project. They are also software engineers who use Python to develop Kubernetes operators and Linux open source infrastructure-as-code. Responsibilities include working across the entire Linux stack from kernel, networking, storage, to applications; working in Python to design and deliver open source code; architecting cloud infrastructure solutions like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, Hadoop, and Spark either on-premises or in public cloud including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; coaching and developing colleagues; and traveling globally up to 25 percent of the time for internal and external events. Requirements include a university degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field, sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Ceph, practical knowledge of Linux and networking, intermediate to advanced Python programming skills, and excellent communication and presentation skills in English.