Ubuntu Quality Engineering Manager at Canonical Ghana

Description

• As an engineering manager at Canonical your role is technical but your focus is your team.
• You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and work well with colleagues and community.
• 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.

What you’ll do

• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Setup and maintain continuous integration for all supported deliverables
• Define and monitor quality metrics
• Develop a team with a culture of high quality and performance
• Work from home with international travel twice per year for up to two weeks

Who you are

• You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
• Your technical knowledge includes C/C++, Python programming and Shell scripting
• You have experience with data science to support data-driven quality strategies 
• You have experience with quality processes and continuous integration tools and principles
• You have engineering management experience and enjoy growing people

Valued additional experience

• A good understanding of Debian packaging and snaps will be valuable
• Familiarity with an agile development environment