Cloud Support Engineer

Cloud Support Engineer Canonical

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a Cloud Support Engineer to build a career with Canonical and support the technical needs of customers 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. We regularly solve interesting, technical problems. From triaging complex Cloud environment issues, Linux kernel crashes we've never seen before to OS configuration issues and root cause analysis, we provide an expert level of support and satisfaction to our peer groups and customers. We are rapidly expanding and are looking for talented problem solvers with a passion for working on the next generation of Ubuntu solutions for our customers.

Location : This is a globally remote role, unless specified otherwise.

Responsibilities

• Investigate issues reported by customers by researching and escalating issues
• Work to resolve complex customer problems related to Canonical's portfolio of products.
• Ownership of results : Ensure that each support case owned by you is handled according to our Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the highest possible customer satisfaction by setting the right expectations and fulfilling your commitments.
• Engage directly with customers and work collaboratively by phone, ticketing system, and remote sessions to resolve their issues.
• Participate in a regular weekend working rotation.
• Contribute new knowledge base articles and maintain existing articles, ensuring shared knowledge and lessons learned are available to customers.
• Understanding Ubuntu development process to be able to set customer expectations correctly on timeline for a fix.

Qualifications

Virtualization / Cloud primarily using KVM or OpenStack.

Linux integration with other environments (authentication / directory services, network file systems, etc.).

Customer needs are top priority.

Benefits

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full?time

Job function

Information Technology, Software Development

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