Ubuntu Sales Engineer, Entry-Level
Canonical
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in North America
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Job Level
About the role
- Collect customer business requirements and advise them on Ubuntu and relevant open source applications
- Identify customer challenges with open source and articulate how Ubuntu Pro could help solve them
- Deliver presentations and demonstrations of Ubuntu Pro to prospective and current clients
- Liaise with product teams to give them feedback on requirements to influence roadmap
- Work collaboratively with your sales team to reach our common targets
- Global travel up to 25% of time for internal and external events and 25% to customer meetings
Requirements
- 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
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Demonstrated personal interest in continuous learning and development
- Practical knowledge of Linux, virtualisation, containers and networking
- Business-minded technology thinker and problem solver
- Knowledge of cloud computing concepts & leaders, such as Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP
- Interest in large-scale enterprise open source - private clouds, machine learning and AI, data and analytics
- Intermediate level Python programming skills
- Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives
- The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- A dynamic person who loves to jump in new projects and interact with people
- Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
- Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to follow up and meet commitments
- Ability to travel internationally, for company events up to two weeks long, and customer or industry meetings
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
LinuxUbuntuPythonvirtualisationcontainersnetworkingcloud computingKubernetesAWSAzure
Soft Skills
communicationinterpersonal skillsproblem solvingcuriosityflexibilityaccountabilityself-motivationresult-orientedteam collaborationpresentation skills