BootStack Engineering Manager at Canonical Nigeria Full Time

Job Title: BootStack Engineering Manager

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Summary

• This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud 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.

Job Description

• 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 BootStack 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.

Responsibilities
As an Engineering Manager you will:

• 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

Requirements
The successful Engineering Manager candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s (or equivalent Degree level) education in a technology field
• Proven track record of at least 5 years 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
• Knowledge about common design patterns (interfaces, …)
• Experience with cloud topologies and technologies
• Travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less

We Offer

• Learning and Development
• Competitive Salary
• Recognition Rewards
• Priority Pass for travel
• Flexible working option

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.