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CanonicalTelco Field Engineering Director
Canonical seeks a Telco Field Engineering Director to lead and manage worldwide regional teams across APAC, EMEA, and AMER. This remote-first position involves directing professional services…
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Canonical seeks a Telco Field Engineering Director to lead and manage worldwide regional teams across APAC, EMEA, and AMER. This remote-first position involves directing professional services and technical presales, guiding engineering talent, and acting as a trusted advisor to telecommunications customers implementing open source technologies. The person in this role will drive strategy, mentor managers, and collaborate closely with internal leadership and external stakeholders. Canonical is a global technology publisher…
Job Description
Canonical seeks a Telco Field Engineering Director to lead and manage worldwide regional teams across APAC, EMEA, and AMER. This remote-first position involves directing professional services and technical presales, guiding engineering talent, and acting as a trusted advisor to telecommunications customers implementing open source technologies. The person in this role will drive strategy, mentor managers, and collaborate closely with internal leadership and external stakeholders.
Canonical is a global technology publisher of Ubuntu and a provider of open source solutions spanning public clouds, private data centers, virtualization, Kubernetes, AI, IoT, and advanced data platforms. Operating as a remote-first enterprise since 2004, the organization focuses on making open source deployments secure, reliable, and accessible for businesses worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineering managers and field engineering teams specializing in professional services and technical presales
- Solve customer problems by promoting company technologies and serving as a trusted technical advisor
- Coach, mentor, and provide career development feedback to personnel
- Identify and track team health indicators while implementing structured engineering processes
- Represent product teams and engineering groups to customers, partners, and internal stakeholders
- Establish and evangelize strong organizational and engineering methodologies
- Plan, manage, and track progress against agreed projects and quarterly departmental goals
- Collaborate actively as part of the broader leadership team
Requirements
- Strong technical understanding of telecommunications NFVi, VIM, NFVO, VNFM, and MEC infrastructure technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SR-IOV, and DPDK
- Familiarity with industry standards and telecommunications architectures
- Working knowledge in at least one domain including Mobile Packet Core, Private Networks, Radio Access Networks, Voice, IP Backbone, VAS, or OSS/BSS
- Understanding of cloud computing concepts such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Ceph
- Practical knowledge of networking and Linux systems
- Demonstrated experience in technical presales
- Track record of developing, growing, leading, and coaching engineers and managers
- Fluency in written and spoken English with strong communication abilities
- Willingness to travel up to 25 percent of the time for customer meetings, internal events, and technology conferences
Qualifications
- Exceptional academic record spanning high school and university levels
- Proficiency in Python programming
- Proficiency in a second language such as French or Spanish
- Experience collaborating with external partners and multiple internal teams to feed into engineering roadmaps
- Understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts for telecommunications environments
- Exposure to frameworks such as 3GPP, TM Forum ODA, eTOM, ETSI NFV, ONAP, or O-RAN
Core Skills
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- Annual compensation reviews
- Distributed work environment with biannual in-person team sprints
- Annual personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Travel opportunities to meet international colleagues, along with Priority Pass and long-haul travel upgrades for company events
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Is this position remote?
Yes, this is a home-based, remote position where you will work from a single major time zone and manage teams worldwide.
What is the salary for this role?
The job posting does not specify a salary figure, noting that compensation is shaped globally by geographical location, experience, and performance.
What travel is required for this position?
The role requires a willingness to travel up to 25 percent of the time to attend internal company events, external technology events, and customer meetings.
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