Cloud Solutions Architect - Alliances

Job Description

Canonical is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to join its Alliances team. In this role, the individual will support Canonical's largest partners in understanding and adopting the open source platform, Ubuntu. The Cloud Solutions Architect will work with OEM, GSI, ISV, Channel, and Public Cloud alliance partners.

The Cloud Solutions Architect acts as a field engineer and must provide thoughtful and well-informed answers to customer inquiries. They need to ensure they always do the best thing for Canonical's partners and customers, no matter the company's interests.

Role Involves:

• Understanding Ubuntu, Linux, networking, and services in real-world environments.
• Architecting cloud infrastructure solutions like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, OpenStack, Ceph, and Spark either On-Premises or in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Architecting and integrating popular open-source software such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, and NGINX.
• Helping partners offer and architect joint solutions utilizing Canonical’s technologies on top of the public clouds and in the data center.
• Designing and publishing joint Reference Architectures and performing technical validations with various partners.
• Preparing and running onboarding sessions/workshops with various partners’ teams to promote Canonical products and solutions.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience with Linux (Ubuntu preferred), Kubernetes, Ceph, and software automation.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions on top of public or private clouds.
• Proficiency in Python and bash, with troubleshooting skills.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• High motivation, ability to multi-task, and follow-up reliably on commitments.
• Interest in customer-facing engagement, including pitching, demonstrating, and understanding customer environment and needs.
• Interest in new technologies like LXD, Juju, and Snaps.
• Ability to travel globally up to 30% of the time.
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related technical field experience.

What Canonical Offers:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.