Associate Linux Support Engineer

Canonical; Trois-Rivières; Remote; CAD 69,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading open-source software company is seeking an Associate Support Engineer to provide exceptional support for Ubuntu and open-source products. This remote role will involve technical troubleshooting, customer communication, and knowledge sharing. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and excellent communication skills. This is an excellent opportunity for someone eager to grow their career in the tech industry.

Benefits

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Annual holiday leave

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• Confidence to respectfully speak up and share ideas.
• Experience with Linux troubleshooting.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for employees from your remote home office.
• Take ownership of new cases via telephone, email, and web.
• Contribute new knowledge base articles and maintain existing ones.
• Participate in a regular weekend working rotation.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Written and verbal English communication

Ability to learn quickly

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Tools

KVM

VMWare

Job description

Overview

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring an Associate Support Engineer to build a career with Canonical and support the technical needs of customers leveraging Ubuntu and open source products. This role is an opportunity for a hands-on engineer with eagerness to learn, a passion for Linux and open source technologies to work with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical. We regularly solve interesting, technical problems. From triaging complex cloud environments, desktop and server issues, Linux kernel crashes we have never seen before to OS configuration issues and root cause analysis, we provide an expert level of support and satisfaction to our peer groups and customers. You will be accountable for delivering an outstanding technical support experience on the full technical stack at Canonical, across cloud, desktop and IoT. From problem qualification to full resolution, you will own and manage your cases. When needed, you will transfer your cases to your colleagues or involve senior engineers. This is a globally remote role.

Location: This is a globally remote role.

The role entails

• Working from your remote home office to provide technical support for employees.
• Being available to take ownership of new cases via telephone, email and web.
• Acting as an internal customer advocate keeping them updated in a timely manner.
• Ensuring that each support case owned by you is handled according to our Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the highest possible customer satisfaction by setting the right expectations and fulfilling your commitments.
• Contributing new knowledge base articles and maintaining existing articles, ensuring shared knowledge and lessons learned are available to customers.
• Drafting and distributing technical notices for internal and external communication.
• Prioritising your work in order to accomplish the most important and urgent tasks first.
• Keeping on learning as our products and services grow and evolve.
• Understanding Ubuntu development process to be able to set customer expectations correctly on timeline for a fix.
• Maintaining regular communication and information exchange with the rest of the team, locally and remotely.
• Identifying and suggesting opportunities to provide a better service.
• Participating in a regular weekend working rotation.

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path. Preferable majors: Computer Science, MIS, Electrical Engineering, etc.
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation.
• Track record of going above-and-beyond to achieve outstanding results.
• Experience with Linux troubleshooting (collecting logs and stack traces, fine-tuning by editing configuration files).
• Knowledge or basic hands-on experience in 2 or more of:
• Linux server administration
• Programming fundamentals in any language (bash, Perl, Ruby, Javascript, C or C++, Go)
• Networking (bonding, firewalling, bridging, switching, network file system tuning, MTU issues, etc.)
• Virtualization / Cloud computing concepts (provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, etc.)
• Ability to learn quickly, thrive on change and handle the pressure of a customer facing job.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation.
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments.
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.

Note: we require and will perform a background check for this role.

Nice-to-have skills

• Experience supporting virtualized environments (KVM, Virtual Box, VMWare).
• Experience with other open-source desktop technologies.
• Active contribution to open-source projects/forum/code.

What we offer colleagues

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. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• 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.
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a high standard for people joining the company. Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.