GitOps Engineering Manager

About the role

Canonical is seeking a GitOps Engineering Manager to lead a high-performance team in pioneering large-scale infrastructure-as-code and model-driven operations. This role involves managing operations, software engineering, and product development to support Canonical and Ubuntu services. You will lead a distributed team, drive agile practices, and contribute to shaping managed application service offerings.

Responsibilities

• Lead your team in daily agile devops practices
• Represent the IS team to stakeholders, customers, and internal teams
• Organize, coordinate and drive internal projects
• Mentor engineers to improve their skills
• Identify and measure team health indicators
• Implement structured engineering and operations processes
• 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

Required skills

• Linux
• Infrastructure as code
• DevOps
• SaaS
• Testing methodologies
• Distributed systems
• Cloud topologies

Nice to have

• Ubuntu system administration
• Agile software development
• Distributed team management

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university

Benefits

• Personal learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Performance-driven annual bonus
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Priority Pass
• Travel upgrades

About the Company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.