DevOps Engineering Manager at Canonical Nigeria

• As the Engineering Team Leader for the DevOps Centre, your primary responsibility is to the people you lead and support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and finding satisfaction in their careers at Canonical.
• As a lead for software engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members.
• You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on direction and execution.

Responsibilities
What you’ll do:

• Lead and develop a team of up-and-coming, junior-level engineers working remotely in global locations
• Hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing code yourself
• Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering and operational teams
• Coordinate with management and external stakeholders or customers
• Advocate modern, agile software development practices
• Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company’s values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
• Global travel up to 10% of time for internal and external events