Engineering Manager - Python and K8s

Job Description

Canonical is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building a world-class DevOps culture within its corporate information systems. Canonical aims to transform its IS team into an extension of its product engineering capability, productizing internal workloads for real-time automated operations on Kubernetes. The Engineering Manager will lead a regional team, ensuring sound software architecture and best practices in software quality, testing, and documentation.

Role Involves:

• Leading a team focused on productizing business workloads.
• Building and managing a regional team of engineers.
• Developing the team through coaching, mentoring, and feedback.
• Setting reasonable schedules and managing expectations.
• Advancing agile software development practices.
• Maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence.
• Collaborating with other leaders in the organization.

Requirements:

• Experience in Docker and Kubernetes operations.
• Software engineering background with Python experience.
• Experience developing Python frameworks and understanding stable APIs.
• Interest in improving software and infrastructure operations.
• Experience in agile development environments.

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
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

This role involves global travel up to 20% for internal and external events. Canonical values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.