Associate Linux Support Engineer (Remote) at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate Linux Support Engineer

Location: Lagos (Globally Remote)

The role entails

• Working from your remote home office to provide technical support for employees.
• Being available to take ownership of new cases via telephone, email and web
• Acting as an internal customer advocate keeping them updated in a timely manner
• Ensuring that each support case owned by you is handled according to our Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the highest possible customer satisfaction by setting the right expectations and fulfilling your commitments.
• Contributing new knowledge base articles and maintaining existing articles, ensuring shared knowledge and lessons learned are available to customers.
• Drafting and distributing technical notices for internal and external communication.
• Prioritising your work in order to accomplish the most important and urgent tasks first
• Keeping on learning as our products and services grow and evolve
• Understanding Ubuntu development process to be able to set customer expectations correctly on timeline for a fix
• Maintaining regular communication and information exchange with the rest of the team, locally and remotely
• Identifying and suggesting any opportunities to provide a better service
• Participating in a regular weekend working rotation

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path. Preferable majors: Computer Science, MIS, Electrical Engineering, etc.
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Experience with Linux troubleshooting (collecting logs and stack traces, fine-tuning by editing configuration files)
• Knowledge or basic hands-on experience on 2 or more of:
  • Linux server administration
  • Programming fundamentals in any language (bash, Perl, Ruby, Javascript, C or C++, Go)
  • Networking (bonding, firewalling, bridging, switching, network file system tuning, MTU issues, etc.) 
  • Virtualization / Cloud computing concepts (provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, etc.)
• Ability to learn quickly, thrive on change and handle the pressure of a customer facing job
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments 
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience supporting virtualized environments (KVM, Virtual Box, VMWare)
• Experience with other open-source desktop technologies
• Active contribution to open-source projects/forum/code.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: We require and will perform a background check for this role.