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Engineering Manager - Identity and Access Management platform (IAM)
As an Engineering Manager at Canonical you will be responsible for designing the solution and leading the team responsible for its delivery.
Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role.
You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
Come and build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.
What you’ll do
Lead a team of engineers to ship open source identity solutions integrating established standards and protocols, like SAML, OpenID, Oauth, PKI, LDAP
Build an integration layer for popular enterprise and cloud identity providers (e.g. Okta, Azure Active Directory, AWS Cognito, etc.)
Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
Ensure that your team delivers great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence
Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events
Who you are
You have knowledge of software , standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space like OpenID, Oauth, SAML, Kerberos, LDAP and Active Directory
You have experience integrating or deploying identity and access management solutions to enterprise customers
You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together with them
You have a software engineering background, preferably with Python, Go and Java experience
You are familiar with Kubernetes and excited to optimise workload operations on it
You value secure coding and standards, and enjoy working on teams that do the same
You have a bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent
You love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, with a view to building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere
You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
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