Job Description
- Application Deadline:
- Position: Software Engineering Squad Leader - Container / Virtualisation - LXD
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience
- Location Lagos
- Job Field ICT / Computer 
Description
- Our mission is to build a next-generation private cloud infrastructure, combining KVM, Ceph, and SDN technologies to create a data center scale cloud that 'just works' and provides a mission-critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments.
- We're hiring squad leaders with experience in high-quality microservice architectures, high-performance teams who also have deep familiarity with Linux, virtualisation, storage and networking.
- LXD components span the entire software stack from low-level kernel features to the upper level management API/CLI.
- Our most effective engineers are fluent in all these layers, and able to anticipate the consequences of design and engineering choices elsewhere in a complex distributed system.
- As a squad leader, you must be technically strong, but your responsibility is also to run an effective team and help develop the colleagues you are responsible for.
- 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.
- The successful candidate will have experience leading successful, collaborative engineering teams, and demonstrate the ability to solve challenging distributed systems problems and deep knowledge of Linux.
Responsibilities
What you’ll do:
- Lead a team of remote engineers
- Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring and feedback
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering squads, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
- Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events
Requirements
Who you are:
- You have a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar Degree
- You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
- You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
- You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
- You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
- You have experience programming in C and/or Go.