Support Engineering Manager

Canonical; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Canonical seeks a Support Manager to lead teams in providing world-class support for Ubuntu users globally. Responsibilities include managing a professional support team, ensuring customer satisfaction, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Ideal candidates should have extensive Linux experience, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to customer focus.

Qualifications

• Extensive CLI experience with Linux at a technical level.
• Leadership and team management experience.
• Fluency in English and good communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a professional support team, including performance management.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and address escalations.
• Contribute to the support knowledge base and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

CLI experience with Linux

Leadership experience

Excellent communication skills

Customer focus

Job description

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Open source is now the centre of technology innovation, and the new default for tech and traditional companies alike. Canonical's Ubuntu is the fastest growing open source platform, with over 20 million users globally. Canonical provides commercial support, consulting and training services to customers and partners who are deploying Ubuntu. Our customers are technology innovators inside global enterprises using Ubuntu and open source to build the future in their industry.

Our regional Support Managers run world-class Support teams – solving deep technical problems for customers around the world on Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Desktop and on the public cloud. They demonstrate two key attributes: customer focus – ensuring that customers are always satisfied with the service they are receiving, and technical excellence – ensuring that the support team is always up to date with the our technology, and that they perform sound and quick troubleshooting. We are looking for managers for both of our support groups; Cloud Support Group and Desktop Support Group.

You'll need to be comfortable in a fast paced environment, able to take responsibility for delivering to customers and enjoy challenges. You will also need to care deeply about your team, their skills, and their career development.

Key responsibilities

• Management of a professional support team, including skills development and performance management
• Operational control, shift scheduling, accountability for key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Ensures that all customer cases are responded to within the SLA, and in a professional manner
• Act as the customer escalation contact, and ensure that such escalations are addressed appropriately
• Accountability for customer satisfaction
• Contribution to the support knowledge base
• Continuous improvement to the team's processes and support service delivery
• Hire, develop and train support team to match business requirements
• Work with the leadership team to drive growth and transformation initiatives

Required skills and experience

• Extensive CLI experience with Linux at a technical level (Support, Development, Implementation)
• Leadership experience, and preferably team management experience
• Confidence under pressure, with proven track record of high customer focus
• Preferably fluent in two languages, English being primary one
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Experience or knowledge of Linux Desktop, OpenStack, Public Cloud or Virtualization technologies
• Proven track record of contributing to Open Source projects
• Experience in working in support organizations
• Hands on experience with Canonical's products