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Associate Linux Support Engineer

Canonical

City of Edinburgh

Remote

GBP 30,000 - 60,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Join a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of open source innovation. As an Associate Linux Support Engineer, you'll leverage your passion for Linux to provide expert support for Ubuntu and open source products. This role offers a unique opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while collaborating with a diverse global team. You'll own and manage support cases, ensuring customer satisfaction and contributing to the continuous improvement of our support processes. If you're eager to learn and thrive in a dynamic environment, this is the perfect opportunity to kickstart your career in technology.

Benefits

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

Priority Pass for travel upgrades

Qualifications

Experience with Linux server administration and troubleshooting.
Ability to draft technical notices and knowledge base articles.

Responsibilities

Provide technical support for employees via telephone, email, and web.
Contribute to knowledge base articles and maintain existing documentation.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Ability to learn quickly

Confidence in customer interactions

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Exceptional academic track record

Tools

KVM

Virtual Box

VMWare

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. 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 1100+ 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 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've 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 any 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 expectations 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 on 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

Noting that 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, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical 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.

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