Engineering Manager, Managed Services

Canonical; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment with bi-•

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Maternity and paternity leave

Wellness platform

Job summary

Canonical is hiring an Engineering Manager for the BootStack team. You will lead engineers delivering modern distributed systems on private infrastructure, including Kubernetes and OpenStack, with a strong focus on testing, reliability, and customer collaboration.

This globally remote role requires coordinating across continents, maintaining SLAs, and driving continuous improvement while aligning with product and operations. Expect travel for team events and customer meetings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technology field or equivalent.
• Proven experience delivering software or leading operations teams.
• Experience with OpenStack and cloud technologies.
• Strong testing discipline and code quality practices.
• Experience leading distributed teams and communicating across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the BootStack engineering team for managed services.
• Drive development and operations quality and velocity.
• Define and monitor team health indicators.
• Ensure delivery of service levels across global deployments.
• Collaborate with customers, product engineering, and operations.

Skills

Software delivery

Managing operations teams

Testing methodologies

Strong communication

Agile methodologies

Distributed teams

Cloud technologies

OpenStack

Linux system administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology

Tools

OpenStack

Linux

Job description

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 + 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 Engineering Manager ...

This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud technologies to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products. If you have an affinity for open source development and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. From Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between, you’ll be working with the latest technology in a fast-paced engineering environment. As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will be responsible for managing the engineers that oversee day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is critical to success.

Location: This is a globally remote role.

The role entails

• Manage a growing engineering team to optimise the quality and velocity of both development and operations


• Identify and measure team health indicators


• Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes


• Represent the BootStack team with respect to stakeholders, customers, and external teams


• Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables


• Work to meet service level agreements with customer deployments around the globe


• Deliver quality managed services in a consistent, timely manner

What we are looking for in you

• Bachelors (or equivalent) education in a technology field


• Proven track record of professional experience of either software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar and/or managing operations teams


• Proven experience with OpenStack


• Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality


• Experience with Linux system administration, Ubuntu/Debian a plus


• Strong communication and cooperation skills


• Experience with agile software development methodologies


• Experience working in and managing distributed teams


• Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems


• Experience with cloud topologies and technologies


• Travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less

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 recognize 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, per year


• Annual compensation review


• Recognition rewards


• Annual holiday leave


• Maternity and paternity leave


• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform


• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues


• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events