Recruitment at Canonical Nigeria Bank

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. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence – in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Digital Workplace

Location: Remote

The role

• Our Workplace Engineering team are a highly performant group which specialises in web architecture and analytics specialists.
• Building new tools, dashboards and analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work.

What you will do

• Design and deliver web-based systems and SAAS
• Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience
• Enable new processes and improve existing workflows
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Estimate work, set goals and meet them
• Write project specifications, and epics and understand the risks
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself
• Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations
• Database design and architecture for connected systems
• Developing new and improved working practices for the company
• Providing tooling to support optimised processes
• Love what you do.

Who you are
To be successful in this team you must be an expert in two or more of the following:

• Backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS
• Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Data analytics and statistical analysis
• Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning
• Data visualisation
• The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow’s tech organisation. This team will help us gain insights into the business and our talent pool, and use those insights to improve the experience of working at Canonical.
• As a Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, you need an analytical, data-driven mind and a passion to connect and make sense of interesting data from APIs. We focus heavily on the collection of metrics, optimising processes, and ways of working across Canonical.
• You need to demonstrate leadership, excellence, and consistency and will mentor others in the team.

What We offer

• Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints. We meet a couple of times a year in interesting places all around the world to come together to collaborate. These Sprints see circa 300 people come together. This year we have travelled to Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Montreal and Prague!
• Personal development: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.
• Compensation: eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.
• Recognition: The ability to possibly be rewarded and recognised by others for the work you do.
• Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you whilst travelling.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Global Head of GSI Alliances

Location: Remote

Description

• We have created a new senior leadership role, Head of Global System Integrator (GSI) Alliances, to lead our business development and partnership with these important actors in the global technology sector.
• As the publisher of Ubuntu and the leading provider of open source to major technology firms globally, we are expanding into the enterprise market where GSIs provide significant operational and tactical capacity. We have had good success with GSIs that are delivering next-generation private cloud, container, and public cloud solutions built with Canonical Ubuntu, and are looking to expand our investment in these alliances.
• Reporting to the VP Global Alliances and Channels, the Global Head of GSI Alliances will lead a team of representatives and develop that strategic go-to-market strength for Canonical.
• You will work closely with GSI partners throughout their sales cycles and across their sales organizations to make Canonical their trusted partner to deliver opensource solutions at scale for their enterprise customers. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that our solutions are used or embedded at the core of GSI digital transformation platforms.
• Our GSI team builds trusted relationships with partners at executive level, increases Canonical market share and attach rate, evangelizes the partnership and leads all business interactions from engineers to CxO level. The Global Head of GSI Alliances will own the strategy, sell-to, sell-through and sell-with motions with all GSI partners, as well as promotion of our GSI related activities – from campaigns, to strategic opportunities and GSI related events (including Canonical s yearly GSI executive summit).

The role entails

• Own and drive GSI partner strategy, forecast, bookings and revenues for Canonical
• Lead and evolve a team towards accelerated revenue growth with GSI
• Build strategic relationships with partners at executive levels
• Guide our offering from product management, to product marketing, and scale it through the support of our global sales organization.

What we are looking for in you
The successful GSI Alliance Sales Director will have :

• Experience in alliance and indirect sales management roles
• Experience in the GSI sector
• Deep commercial experience encompassing revenue and margins
• Proven leadership and presentation skills
• Insight into open source, Ubuntu and Canonical’s competition and opportunities
• Track record of data-driven decision-making
• An autonomous, disciplined, hands-on, get-it-done mentality.

What we offer colleagues
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• 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, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Cloud Engineering Manager

Location: Remote

About the Role

• This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud technologies to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products.
• If you have an affinity for open source development and a passion for technology, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

Engineering Manager:

• The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. From Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between, you’ll be working with the latest technology in a fast-paced engineering environment. As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will be responsible for managing the engineers that oversee day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is critical to success.

Responsibilities
As an Engineering Manager you will:

• 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

Requirements
The successful Engineering Manager candidate will have:

• Bachelor’s (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
• 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.

What we offer you
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• 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 from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Engineering Manager – MLOps & Analytics

Location: Remote

The Role

• As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, you must be technically strong, but your main responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage.
• You will develop and review code as a leader, while at the same time staying aware of that the best way to improve the product is to ensure that the whole team is focused, productive and unblocked.
• You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do meaningful work, do it outstandingly well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and the community. You will also be expected to be a positive influence on culture, facilitate technical delivery, and regularly reflect with your team on strategy and execution.
• You will collaborate closely with other Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects, producing an engineering roadmap with ambitious and achievable goals.
• We expect Engineering Managers to be fluent in the programming language, architecture, and components that their team uses, in this case, popular open-source machine learning tools like Kubeflow, MLFlow, and Feast.
• Code reviews and architectural leadership are part of the job. The commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality and performance optimisation is as important, as is the requirement for fair and clear management, and the obligation to ensure a high-performing team.

What your day will look like

• Manage a distributed team of engineers and its MLOps/Analytics portfolio
• Organize and lead the team’s processes in order to help it achieve its objectives
• Conduct one-on-one meetings with team members
• Identify and measure team health indicators
• Interact with a vibrant community
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Attend conferences to represent Canonical and its MLOps solutions
• Mentor and grow your direct reports, helping them achieve their professional goals
• Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
• A proven track record of professional experience in software delivery
• Professional Python development experience, preferably with a track record in open-source
• A proven understanding of the machine learning space, its challenges and opportunities to improve
• Experience designing and implementing MLOps solutions
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional skills that you might also bring
The following skills may be helpful to you in the role, but we don’t expect everyone to bring all of them.

• Hands-on experience with machine learning libraries, or tools.
• Proven track record of building highly automated machine learning solutions for the cloud.
• Experience with building machine learning models
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience in the Linux and open-source software world
• Working knowledge of cloud computing
• Passionate about software quality and testing
• Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project — even if that is community open source contributions.
• Demonstrated track record of Open Source contributions.

What we offer you
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• 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 from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online