[Hiring] OpenStack Engineering Manager @Career Options Africa Group

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelors (or equivalent) education in a technology field.
• Proven track record of 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.
• Experience with cloud topologies and technologies.
• Travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less.

Company Description

Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors.

• Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'.
• We publish an operating system that runs from tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes.
• Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source.
• Fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.