Kubernetes Engineering Manager at Canonical Ghana

About The Job

Lead the team responsible for MicroK8s and Charmed Kubernetes.
As an engineering manager of the Kubernetes team you’ll engage the Kubernetes community, represent Canonical and Ubuntu at KubeCon, and use your engineering leadership abilities to guide teams using Python and Go to deliver exciting new features to thousands of enthusiastic users. Join our globally distributed team and help build the next generation of container technology for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, Edge and IoT.
This is an exciting opportunity for a leader passionate about strong teams, open source software, Linux and Kubernetes. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

What you’ll do

Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers
Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and commercial partners
Oversee the quality, and engineering practices of a large team of software engineers building Kubernetes offerings
Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who you are

You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
You have some experience leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
You bring an understanding of modern Linux, Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes