Remote Public Cloud Solution Architect – Open Source & Partnerships

Canonical Ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team sprints in person twice a year

Learning budget - USD 2,000/year

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Public Cloud Solution Architect to drive joint initiatives with major public clouds. Based remotely in the AMER region, you will collaborate with engineering, product management, and sales to align open-source strategies and deliver Ubuntu-focused cloud solutions.

You will champion Canonical’s cloud partnerships, produce partner-facing materials, and help accelerate adoption of Ubuntu across cloud platforms while maintaining strong communication in English with global teams.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of public cloud technologies.
• Excellent English writing and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally up to two weeks twice a year.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and alliance teams at cloud partners.
• Ensure Canonical's product requirements are clear and delivery is on track.
• Maintain relationships with engineering teams to integrate Ubuntu on public clouds.
• Act as product champion and POC for named cloud partners.
• Coordinate with marketing and product teams on messaging, content and launches.
• Create partner- and customer-facing materials (webinars, presentations, videos, white papers).
• Drive Ubuntu adoption across cloud products and advocate its benefits to stakeholders.
• Deliver first-party offerings with subscription components with cloud providers.
• Lead efforts to make Canonical products the default choice for cloud partners.

Skills

Public cloud technologies

Leadership

Business English writing

Travel readiness

Collaboration

Education

Undergraduate technical degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Linux/Ubuntu

Job description

Canonical is hiring a Public Cloud Solution Architect to drive joint initiatives with major public clouds. Based remotely in the AMER region, you will collaborate with engineering, product management, and sales to align open-source strategies and deliver Ubuntu-focused cloud solutions.

You will champion Canonical’s cloud partnerships, produce partner-facing materials, and help accelerate adoption of Ubuntu across cloud platforms while maintaining strong communication in English with global teams.