About this role
Job title: GitOps Engineering Manager
About the Role Canonical is hiring a GitOps Engineering Manager to lead a high‑performance, distributed team that blends operations management, software engineering, and product development. You will need to be a Linux and operations expert and a capable manager to drive world‑class devops and gitops engineering across our globally distributed IS work.
What You'll Do
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- Proven drive and track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
- Proven experience of software delivery using infrastructure as code.
- Proven experience managing devops teams for SaaS or similar offerings.
- Understanding of testing methodologies and maintainable code quality.
- Technical aptitude for understanding complex systems.
- Linux and operations expertise.
- Experience leading distributed/remote teams across time zones is a plus.
Nice to Have
- Experience coordinating work across distributed teams in APAC, EMEA, and the Americas.