Junior Cloud Field Engineer

Canonical Ltd.; Lombardia; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Canonical is seeking Linux and cloud solutions architects who design and deploy private and public cloud solutions. You will work hands-on deploying, testing, and handing over to support teams, while developing Kubernetes operators in Python and open source infra-as-code.

Ideal candidates love solving customer problems through architecture, presentations, and training, and will thrive in a home-based, remote role with a collaborative engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Architectural thinking for cloud solutions
• Strong presentation skills
• Mentoring and training capabilities

Responsibilities

• Design private and public cloud infrastructure solutions for clients
• Deploy, test and hand over solutions to support teams
• Develop Kubernetes operators and infra-as-code using Python
• Coach colleagues and foster a collaborative engineering culture

Job description

Help global companies embrace the latest private cloud infrastructure, Linux and cloud native operations, and open source applications. Our team applies expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Linux Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes and a wide range of associated technology.

This role has very diverse responsibilities. The team members are Linux and cloud solutions architects for our customers, designing private and public cloud solutions fitting their workload needs. They are the cloud consultants who work hands-on with the technologies by deploying, testing and handing over the solution to our support or managed services team at the end of a project. They are also software engineers who use Python to develop Kubernetes operators and Linux open source infrastructure-as-code.

The people who love this role are developers who like to solve customer problems through architecture, presentations and training.

Location: This role will be home based.

What your day will look like

• Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications
• Work in Python to design and deliver open source code
• Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, Hadoop and Spark either On-Premises or in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line w