Alliances Field Engineer
Canonical is seeking an Alliances Field Engineer to collaborate with major partners such as Intel, Nvidia, Google, Dell, HP, Accenture, and Tata. This role involves assisting these partners in understanding and adopting Canonical's open-source platform, Ubuntu, and associated technologies. The position is home-based, offering the flexibility to work from anywhere worldwide.
The Alliances Field Engineer will be responsible for architecting cloud infrastructure solutions like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, OpenStack, Ceph, and Spark, both on-premises and in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Additionally, the role includes integrating popular open-source software like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, and NGINX. The engineer will design and publish joint reference architectures, perform technical validations with partners, and conduct onboarding sessions and workshops to promote Canonical's products and solutions.
Candidates should have extensive experience with Linux (preferably Ubuntu), Kubernetes, Ceph, and software automation. Proficiency in designing and implementing solutions on public or private clouds, along with strong skills in Python and Bash scripting, is essential. Excellent communication and presentation abilities, a high level of motivation, and the capacity to manage multiple tasks are required. An interest in customer-facing engagements and new technologies like LXD, Juju, and Snaps is also desirable. A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field is necessary, and the ability to travel globally up to 30% of the time is expected.
Canonical offers a distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints. Employees receive a personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year, annual compensation reviews, recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme. There are also opportunities to travel to new locations to meet colleagues and Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.
Joining Canonical means becoming part of a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and a platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, Canonical is changing the world of software. The company has been remote-first since its inception in 2004, offering a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.