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About us One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team. What you'll do As Project Engineer, you will provide engineering support on a wide range of turnkey telecoms projects. Primary tasks include : systems design, preparation of engineering documents, testing and commissioning of telecoms systems. Working in collaboration with the Project Management group to ensure the effective delivery of projects and services to SI customers and with the Sales Group to ensure the effective delivery of technical consultation and estimates for bids and proposals. The day-to-day Compliance with Company policies, standards and regulations. Adherence with Company Values Operate within a virtual project team, lead engineer for a system or systems, liaise with other engineers and technicians during the lifecycle of a project. The detailed design, production of project documents & drawings, configuration, pre-FAT testing, and conduction of client witnessed FATs as required (PAGA, CCTV, ACS, Radio, LAN, WAN, SCS, IDS, etc.) Liaise with suppliers & third parties and assist the Project Management group to ensure the smooth and successful delivery of each Project on time and budget, ensuring that all agreed customer requirements are met. To travel and attend client kick-off meetings, project review meetings, and vendor / supplier FATs , as required Travel for site installation supervision, site commissioning and witnessing SATs, both onshore and offshore, as required. Support the RigNet Quality program within SI operations to uphold the highest quality standards. Ensure compliance and maintainability of an ISO certification across the SI organization performing appropriate gate checks to audit / monitor adherence to this program. Any other adhoc tasks has context menuCompose What you'll need HND level (or equivalent) in a relevant technical subject or extensive relevant experience Experience of an Operational Engineering environment required in the Telecommunication Industry Professional Accreditation such as Chartered Engineer, MIET or working towards these. Significant experience of Projects work Ability to communicate with people at all levels and participate in teamworking Capable of working under pressure and the ability to multi-task effectively both independently and within a team Flexible and willing to meet customer requirements has context menu Compose This role is contingent on an upcoming award What will help you on the job Experience with standard MS Office applications Travel may be required locally and internationally Valid work permit or local citizenship in Qatar where the position is based is a plus! At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https : / / careers.viasat.com / benefits. EEO statement Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.

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Reporting structure

Reports To Head of Maintenance
Direct Reports Maintenance Supervisor

PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO QATARI CANDIDATES

Job Summary and Purpose

The Senior Maintenance Engineer leverages deep understanding of maintenance strategies in order to contribute to day-to-day operational maintenance expertise and leadership and supports the Head of Maintenance in monitoring and implementing the strategies for managing the shipyards assets throughout their lifecycle. All works is executed to a high quality & auditable standard that is consistent with the companies integrated management systems and policies. As a senior officer, a high level of technical skill and experience is demanded and is expected to be demonstrably applied to technical problems and monitoring of trades employees.

Accountabilities

Key Accountabilities:

• Develops a deep understanding of the yard specific maintenance strategy and supports the Head of Maintenance in breaking strategy down into short to medium time horizon work plans and tactics. Supports the implementation of all aspect of the Maintenance Strategy.


• Operate and maintain all Substations (High Voltage (HV), Medium Voltage (MV), Low Voltage (LV and external electrical systems.


• Operate and maintain site-wide Electrical Low Voltage (ELV) systems consisting of Power Management System (PMS), Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) , Fire Alarm Systems (FAS), Distributed Control System (DCS) and Plant Monitoring System (PMonS).


• Operate and maintain the site Fire Alarm system and all its components.


• Prepare and manage all spare parts required for the maintenance of the Equipment and related assets.


• Support the Head of Maintenance in the preparation of maintenance strategies to reduce failure rates of equipment and improve maintenance KPIs.


• Prepare RCA reports and provide Head of Maintenance with proposals for preventing repeat failures and ensuring lessons learned.


• Prepare scopes of work and tender documentation for sub-contractors.


• Supervise sub-contractors and ensure compliance with scope of work.


• Lead and supervise maintenance technicians.


• Prepare risk assessments and apply required permits.


• Maintain maintenance records.


• Coordinate with relevant authorities and obtain approvals for any changes to systems and structures.


• Communicate upwards - training needs, process improvement suggestions and follow up on implementation.


• Schedule and prioritize work considering all available resources.

Accountabilities - 2

• Demonstrate work behaviors consistent with company values and work within company policies, standards, procedures, and any legislative requirements.


• Adhere to health, safety, security and environmental policies, procedures, instructions, and controls for the safety of self and others.


• Ensure compliance to quality management procedures and controls to deliver high quality services and products.


• Follow all safety procedures and report lapses, if any. Monitors yard facilities and reports to the Head of Maintenance, where necessary.


• Takes corrective action on errors as defined in the IMS, as necessary.


• Achieves Performance Indicators as defined in the Qatar Shipyard Technology Solutions Policy and Objectives Matrix.


• Maintains the SAP Module is maintained according to the schedule.


• Implements and monitors compliance to department budgets and raises any requirement to deviate from them.


• Demonstrates leadership at a monthly section review meeting.


• Supports execution of daily operations, making sure maintenance plans are met.


• Contribute with timely updates and inputs such as lead and lag indication data to inform stakeholders to support internal decision making and performance review processes.


• Model a collaborative and cross-organizational relationship within and between maintenance and operations and support functions to ensure alignment to desired high performance culture.


• Drive a safety culture within the team through role modelling safety values and behaviors. Ensure compliance with health, safety, security and environment standards.


• Apply skills, knowledge, and ability to ensure people and resources enable production throughput rate to be safely achievable in line with Section Plan and KPIs in line with Qatar Shipyard Technology Solutions Values and IMS system.


• Drive high quality standards in the department to ensure all employees compliance to deliver high quality services and products and achieve customer satisfaction.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications:

• Degree in Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Certificate of Competency (Marine Engineer Officer) Class 1 (Motorship), or its equivalent.

Experience:

• 10 years of relevant working experience in the industry.

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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 1200+ 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 Software Maintenance Engineer to

work in a dynamic and exciting engineering role in Linux-based infrastructure and applications, covering all layers of the stack, including bare metal, virtualization (KVM), containerization (Docker/LXC/LXD), storage (Ceph and Linux filesystems), networking (OVS, OVN and Core networking), OpenStack, Kubernetes and the open source applications running on top of them. It will challenge you to show the breadth of your engineering skills, which will be needed to work on almost any aspect of Ubuntu and the open source applications large enterprise customers run.

This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and open source to build a career with Canonical and drive success for our customers, community and the company. If you have an affinity for open source software, great communication skills, and a passion for troubleshooting and fixing issues in technology used by millions across the world, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

This role deals with critical issues in the open source stack that require upstream bug fixes. Our engineers are able to work productively at any level of the stack including the kernel and in a wide range of languages, to understand and address the software issues at hand. Our group is critical to the success of our customers, partners and Ubuntu itself.

You will help with troubleshooting and driving issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and bug fixes to be released upstream and in Ubuntu.

Location: This is a remote role, we have teams in all time zones.

The role entails

• Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software
• Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's Field, Support and product engineering teams
• Participate in upstream communities
• Develop bug fixes, backport patches, and work with upstream for inclusion
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Demonstrate good judgment in technical methods and techniques
• Prioritize work and manage your time effectively against those priorities
• Participate in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation
• Maintain clear, technical and concise communications
• Work from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences
  
  

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record
• Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar
• Experience with Linux and open source software
• Experience with at least one of Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux
• A drive to learn unfamiliar technology and deep-dive difficult issues
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

Nice-to-have skills

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have interest in, or willingness to learn about any of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD,Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems
  
  

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

About Canonical

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 our 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.

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

• Seniority level Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Hotel Maintenance Engineer vacancy in Al-Rayyan Qatar

Hotel Maintenance Engineer

As a Hotel Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation and maintenance of all hotel equipment, systems, and facilities. Your main duties will include conducting routine inspections, identifying and troubleshooting issues, performing repairs and maintenance tasks, and coordinating with outside contractors as needed.

To excel in this role, you should have a strong background in mechanical or electrical engineering, as well as experience with plumbing, HVAC systems, and other building systems. You must also possess excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.

Key Responsibilities:
- Inspect hotel equipment and facilities on a regular basis to ensure proper functioning
- Identify any issues or malfunctions and determine the best course of action for repairs
- Perform maintenance tasks such as replacing light bulbs, fixing leaks, unclogging drains, etc.
- Coordinate with outside contractors for more complex repairs or installations
- Keep detailed records of all maintenance activities and report any major issues to management
- Monitor inventory levels of maintenance supplies and place orders when necessary

Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred
- Proven experience in maintenance/engineering field (hotel experience preferred)
- Strong knowledge of plumbing, HVAC systems, and other building systems
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to lift heavy objects
- Flexible schedule including weekends and holidays

Salary: $1300 per month

City: Al-Rayyan

Preference: Pakistani nationality preferred.

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Aertssen Machinery Services is proudly part of the Aertssen Group, a family-owned company based in Belgium with over 60 years of history. Over the past 15 years, with our state-of-the-art machinery, we have established a reputable presence in the Middle East, with offices in UAE, Qatar and KSA . We operate in two divisions: Heavy Lifting & Earthmoving, ensuring the execution of a wide range of diverse projects on daily basis. Our advanced fleet of high-tech machinery, combined with our nine hundred specialized employees, empowers us to consistently deliver customer-centric service. Our employees are invaluable to us. After all, it's the synergy between our passionate team and our machinery that drives our daily excellence in everything we do.

At Aertssen Machinery Services, our mission is to live up to the promise made in our slogan every day: People, power, and passion to build on.

• Service, maintain, and repair motors, pumps, hydraulic systems, and other mechanical components on cranes from brands such as Tadano, Liebherr, Hitachi, Demag, and Grove.
• Work closely with the workshop manager, provide clear updates, and ensure accurate reporting of all activities.
• Diagnose Electrical issues and perform repairs on-site to minimize downtime.
• Provide technical support, and guidance to operators on crane usage and maintenance.
• Support the development and optimization of the preventive maintenance program by identifying critical components to reduce downtime and extend equipment lifespan.
• Follow company and industry safety procedures and regulations
• Work closely with mechanical team, including technical support, engineering, improve service quality and resolve complex issues.
• Document all maintenance activities and ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Update the troubleshoot logbook.
• Assist with new equipment installation and qualification.
• Work all shifts flexibly when job demands.

Qualifications

• A higher education degree in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering
• At least 5 years of experience in an Electrical, Mechanical engineering role
• Excellent English skills. Additional languages are a plus.
• Strong technical knowledge of equipment and machinery, with a preference for brands such as Tadano, Liebherr, Demag, Hitachi, and Grove.
• Hands-on experience with diagnostic tools, mechanical repairs, hydraulics and electrical systems.
• Skilled in reading and interpreting technical documentation, including schematics and blueprints.
• Attention to detail, quality, and precision
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and accountability for results
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• The right attitude: positive, ambitious, eager to learn, collaborative, and always ready to help!

What we offer

We offer you the opportunity to join an internationally growing company. You will be part of our dynamic team, you will be able to contribute to and benefit from our continuous expansion and global reach. Additionally, we provide attractive compensation for motivated employees, a modern workplace and a dynamic team, opportunities for career advancement within the organization, company-provided housing, and a pick-up vehicle for commuting and work assignments.

Apply today!

Please email your resume and a tailored cover letter explaining your fit for the role.

Hotel Maintenance Engineer vacancy in Al-Rayyan Qatar

Hotel Maintenance Engineer

Our luxury hotel in Al-Rayyan is seeking a skilled and experienced Maintenance Engineer to join our team. As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the proper functioning and upkeep of all equipment and systems within the hotel, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems. This is a full-time position with a salary of 1500$ per month.

Responsibilities:
- Conduct routine maintenance on all equipment and systems in the hotel
- Troubleshoot and repair any issues that arise with equipment or systems
- Keep records of all maintenance performed and report any major repairs or replacements needed
- Ensure compliance with all safety regulations and standards
- Coordinate with other departments to schedule maintenance tasks without disrupting guest experience
- Train and supervise junior maintenance staff

Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a Maintenance Engineer in a hotel or similar setting
- Expertise in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems
- Knowledge of safety regulations and standards related to maintenance work
- Ability to troubleshoot issues quickly and efficiently
- Strong communication skills in English (knowledge of Hindi or other Indian languages is a plus)
- Ability to work flexible hours as needed, including weekends and holidays

If you are a skilled Maintenance Engineer with experience in the hospitality industry, we would love to have you join our team. Please apply with your resume and cover letter highlighting your relevant experience.

Note: This job is open to both Indian nationals living in Al-Rayyan or willing to relocate. Fluency in English is required for this position.

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Hotel Maintenance Engineer vacancy in Al-Rayyan Qatar

Hotel Maintenance Engineer

Our luxury hotel in Al-Rayyan is seeking a skilled and experienced Maintenance Engineer to join our team. As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the proper functioning and upkeep of all equipment and systems within the hotel, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems. This is a full-time position with a salary of 1500$ per month.

Responsibilities:
- Conduct routine maintenance on all equipment and systems in the hotel
- Troubleshoot and repair any issues that arise with equipment or systems
- Keep records of all maintenance performed and report any major repairs or replacements needed
- Ensure compliance with all safety regulations and standards
- Coordinate with other departments to schedule maintenance tasks without disrupting guest experience
- Train and supervise junior maintenance staff

Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a Maintenance Engineer in a hotel or similar setting
- Expertise in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems
- Knowledge of safety regulations and standards related to maintenance work
- Ability to troubleshoot issues quickly and efficiently
- Strong communication skills in English (knowledge of Hindi or other Indian languages is a plus)
- Ability to work flexible hours as needed, including weekends and holidays

If you are a skilled Maintenance Engineer with experience in the hospitality industry, we would love to have you join our team. Please apply with your resume and cover letter highlighting your relevant experience.

Note: This job is open to both Indian nationals living in Al-Rayyan or willing to relocate. Fluency in English is required for this position.

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Reporting structure

Reports To Head of Maintenance
Direct Reports Maintenance Supervisor

** PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO QATARI CANDIDATES **

Job Summary and Purpose

The Senior Maintenance Engineer leverages deep understanding of maintenance strategies in order to contribute to day-to-day operational maintenance expertise and leadership and supports the Head of Maintenance in monitoring and implementing the strategies for managing the shipyards assets throughout their lifecycle. All works is executed to a high quality & auditable standard that is consistent with the companies integrated management systems and policies. As a senior officer, a high level of technical skill and experience is demanded and is expected to be demonstrably applied to technical problems and monitoring of trades employees.

Accountabilities

Key Accountabilities:

• Develops a deep understanding of the yard specific maintenance strategy and supports the Head of Maintenance in breaking strategy down into short to medium time horizon work plans and tactics. Supports the implementation of all aspect of the Maintenance Strategy.


• Operate and maintain all Substations (High Voltage (HV), Medium Voltage (MV), Low Voltage (LV)) and external electrical systems.


• Operate and maintain site-wide Electrical Low Voltage (ELV) systems consisting of Power Management System (PMS), Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) , Fire Alarm Systems (FAS), Distributed Control System (DCS) and Plant Monitoring System (PMonS).


• Operate and maintain the site Fire Alarm system and all its components.


• Prepare and manage all spare parts required for the maintenance of the Equipment and related assets.


• Support the Head of Maintenance in the preparation of maintenance strategies to reduce failure rates of equipment and improve maintenance KPIs.


• Prepare RCA reports and provide Head of Maintenance with proposals for preventing repeat failures and ensuring lessons learned.


• Prepare scopes of work and tender documentation for sub-contractors.


• Supervise sub-contractors and ensure compliance with scope of work.


• Lead and supervise maintenance technicians.


• Prepare risk assessments and apply required permits.


• Maintain maintenance records.


• Coordinate with relevant authorities and obtain approvals for any changes to systems and structures.


• Communicate upwards – training needs, process improvement suggestions and follow up on implementation.


• Schedule and prioritize work considering all available resources.

Accountabilities - 2

• Demonstrate work behaviors consistent with company values and work within company policies, standards, procedures, and any legislative requirements.


• Adhere to health, safety, security and environmental policies, procedures, instructions, and controls for the safety of self and others.


• Ensure compliance to quality management procedures and controls to deliver high quality services and products.


• Follow all safety procedures and report lapses, if any. Monitors yard facilities and reports to the Head of Maintenance, where necessary.


• Takes corrective action on errors as defined in the IMS, as necessary.


• Achieves Performance Indicators as defined in the Qatar Shipyard Technology Solutions Policy and Objectives Matrix.


• Maintains the SAP Module is maintained according to the schedule.


• Implements and monitors compliance to department budgets and raises any requirement to deviate from them.


• Demonstrates leadership at a monthly section review meeting.


• Supports execution of daily operations, making sure maintenance plans are met.


• Contribute with timely updates and inputs such as lead and lag indication data to inform stakeholders to support internal decision making and performance review processes.


• Model a collaborative and cross-organizational relationship within and between maintenance and operations and support functions to ensure alignment to desired high performance culture.


• Drive a safety culture within the team through role modelling safety values and behaviors. Ensure compliance with health, safety, security and environment standards.


• Apply skills, knowledge, and ability to ensure people and resources enable production throughput rate to be safely achievable in line with Section Plan and KPIs in line with Qatar Shipyard Technology Solutions Values and IMS system.


• Drive high quality standards in the department to ensure all employees compliance to deliver high quality services and products and achieve customer satisfaction.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications:

• Degree in Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Certificate of Competency (Marine Engineer Officer) Class 1 (Motorship), or its equivalent.

Experience:

• 10 years of relevant working experience in the industry.

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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 1200+ 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 Software Maintenance Engineer to…

…work in a dynamic and exciting engineering role in Linux-based infrastructure and applications, covering all layers of the stack, including bare metal, virtualization (KVM), containerization (Docker/LXC/LXD), storage (Ceph and Linux filesystems), networking (OVS, OVN and Core networking), OpenStack, Kubernetes and the open source applications running on top of them. It will challenge you to show the breadth of your engineering skills, which will be needed to work on almost any aspect of Ubuntu and the open source applications large enterprise customers run.

This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and open source to build a career with Canonical and drive success for our customers, community and the company. If you have an affinity for open source software, great communication skills, and a passion for troubleshooting and fixing issues in technology used by millions across the world, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

This role deals with critical issues in the open source stack that require upstream bug fixes. Our engineers are able to work productively at any level of the stack including the kernel and in a wide range of languages, to understand and address the software issues at hand. Our group is critical to the success of our customers, partners and Ubuntu itself.

You will help with troubleshooting and driving issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and bug fixes to be released upstream and in Ubuntu.

Location: This is a remote role, we have teams in all time zones.

The role entails

• Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software
• Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's Field, Support and product engineering teams
• Participate in upstream communities
• Develop bug fixes, backport patches, and work with upstream for inclusion
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Demonstrate good judgment in technical methods and techniques
• Prioritize work and manage your time effectively against those priorities
• Participate in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation
• Maintain clear, technical and concise communications
• Work from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences
  
  

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record
• Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar
• Experience with Linux and open source software
• Experience with at least one of Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux
• A drive to learn unfamiliar technology and deep-dive difficult issues
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

Nice-to-have skills

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have interest in, or willingness to learn about any of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD,Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems
  
  

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

About Canonical

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 our 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.

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

• Seniority level Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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