Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Engineering at Canonical requires hands-on code contribution and review, as well as architectural leadership. You will need to demonstrate insight into performance and quality engineering practices and ensure your team embraces effective disciplines on both fronts. You will need to be comfortable holding contributors accountable for work ethic and results. You must also have an understanding of security practices and principles and the impact that engineering choices have on product security. We expect teams to deliver well-documented products and work with design professionals to shape the product experience. You should relish the opportunity to shape and direct and develop an engineering team that is happy and brilliant, and produces a product that will be a pleasure to use and to evolve. For this role you must have deep, proven experience with Python and preferably some experience with Go. Experience with IAM tools and protocols is a must. This role is centred around driving a team that delivers high quality software, not just the integration of existing solutions.

What you'll do
• Deliver high-quality, rigorously designed software written in Python and Go
• Lead a team of developers to ship software that automates open source identity solutions, integrating established standards and protocols, like SAML, OpenID, OAuth, PKI, LDAP
• Build an integration layer for popular enterprise and cloud identity providers (e.g. Okta, Azure Active Directory, AWS Cognito, etc.)
• Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Ensure that your team delivers great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events

Who You Are
• You are a software engineer/developer by background
• You have knowledge of software , standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space like OpenID, Oauth, SAML, Kerberos, LDAP and Active Directory
• You have experience integrating or deploying identity and access management solutions to enterprise customers
• You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together with them
• You are familiar with Kubernetes and excited to optimise workload operations on it
• You value secure coding and standards, and enjoy working on teams that do the same
• You have a bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent
• You love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, with a view to building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere
• You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Use the link(s) below to apply on company website.
Identity Platform Engineering Manager - Python/Go

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