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senior cloud security consultant

Proclink

<div>
 
 
 
 Senior Cloud Security Consultant
 
 
 
 
 
 Role Overview
 
 
 
 The Senior Cloud Security Specialist will serve as a lead security advisor within the CoE, supporting government organizations in their journey toward secure and compliant cloud adoption.
 
 
 
 
 
 With deep expertise in both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, the specialist acts as a trusted advisor, ensuring alignment with Kuwait&rsquo;s National Cybersecurity Strategy, data residency laws, and international best practices.
 
 
 
 
 
 This profile brings a cloud-provider-agnostic approach, focusing on high-level strategic and technical security advisory tailored to the unique regulatory and operational landscape of the Kuwaiti public sector.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Key Responsibilities
 
 
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 Strategic advisory on secure cloud adoption for public sector entities transitioning to or operating in GCP and Azure environments.
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 Evaluate and guide the design of secure cloud landing zones, cloud governance frameworks, and risk mitigation strategies.
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 Assessment of cloud architectures for compliance with national benchmarks and best practices.
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 Guidance on IAM, network segmentation, data protection, incident response, and threat modeling.
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 Ensure alignment with data residency and sovereignty laws in Kuwait.
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 Collaborate with cloud providers and government stakeholders to design secure multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures.
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 Create and maintain security reference architectures, policies, and cloud security roadmaps.
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 Contribute to the creation of cloud security standards and playbooks for public entities.
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 Provide mentorship and knowledge transfer to internal security teams and stakeholders.
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 Keep abreast of regional and global cybersecurity developments and cloud-native security capabilities.
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 Qualifications
 
 
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 Over 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, with strong specialization in cloud security.
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 Hands-on expertise in GCP and Azure security tools, configurations, and compliance models.
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 Deep knowledge of cloud security principles including Zero Trust, DevSecOps, and security automation
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 Strong knowledge of global compliance standards including ISO 27001, NIST, and data privacy laws.
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 Professional certifications preferred: Google Cloud Security Engineer, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) or equivalent.
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 Experience working in or advising public sector organizations or regulated industries.
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 Familiarity with GCC and Kuwaiti government cybersecurity policies, particularly CITRA cloud frameworks and Kuwait National Cybersecurity Strategy.
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 Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in English.
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Senior Cloud Security Consultant

<div>
 
 
 
 Senior Cloud FinOps Consultant
 
 
 
 
 
 Role Overview
 
 
 
 The Senior Cloud FinOps Consultant will serve as a key advisor to public sector entities on cloud financial governance and cost optimization. This role is cloud-agnostic and strategic in nature, focusing on building FinOps capabilities, promoting cost visibility, and ensuring that cloud spending aligns with business value across both GCP and Azure environments. The consultant will work within the CoE and liaise with various stakeholders from government organizations, finance departments, and cloud teams.
 
 
 
 
 
 Key Responsibilities
 
 
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 Lead the development and implementation of FinOps practices for public sector entities operating in GCP and Azure.
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 Establish frameworks for cloud financial governance, budgeting, forecasting, and cost control.
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 Promote cost visibility, accountability, and chargeback/showback models across technical and business units.
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 Work with engineering, procurement, and finance teams to optimize cloud resource utilization and identify cost savings.
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 Develop dashboards, KPIs, and reporting standards for ongoing cost monitoring and optimization.
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 Provide training and workshops to stakeholders on cloud financial best practices and FinOps principles.
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 Advise on contract optimization, reservation planning, licensing, and vendor management strategies.
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 Support organizations in aligning cloud spending with business value and strategic outcomes.
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 Continuously track market trends and evolve FinOps strategies based on emerging tools and practices.
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 Qualifications
 
 
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 Over 5 years of experience in IT financial management, cloud operations, or related roles.
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 Proven expertise in cloud financial operations (FinOps) across multi-cloud environments, especially Azure and GCP.
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 Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization in the context of cloud services.
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 Familiarity with FinOps Foundation principles and best practices.
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 Experience implementing chargeback/showback models, cost allocation tagging strategies, and cloud spend governance.
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 Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate across technical and financial domains.
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 Experience working with data visualization and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Looker, Tableau).
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 Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in English.
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 Experience building or contributing to a FinOps or Cloud Business Office function.
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 Ability to lead cost optimization reviews and executive reporting for cloud spend.
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Senior Cloud FinOps Consultant

Google

<div>
 
 Minimum qualifications:
 
 
 
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 Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber-security, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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 5 years of experience delivering cyber outcomes, identifying mission risks, and devising solutions to combat public sector focused threats.
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 4 years of experience assessing and developing cyber-security solutions across multiple security domains.
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 Ability to communicate in Arabic and English fluently as this is a customer-facing role that requires interactions in Arabic and English with local stakeholders.
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 Ability to travel up to 50% of the time as required.
 
 
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 Preferred qualifications:
 
 
 
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 Experience with enterprise networking and network segmentation strategies, Agile program and project management, SCRUM methodology, DevSecOps, Governance, Risk, and Compliance practices, NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
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 Experience with enterprise security controls in on-premises and cloud infrastructures, Zero Trust Architecture, Secure Enterprise Platforms Architecture, Identity providers such as Google Cloud Platform, Active Directory, Salesforce, Business-to-Business/Business-to-Consumer identities and collaboration platforms.
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 Experience with Privileged Access Management best practices.
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 Experience with Unix endpoint hardening and security control enforcement.
 
 
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 About The Job
 
 
 
 As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for helping clients effectively prepare for, proactively mitigate, and detect and respond to cyber security threats. Security Consultants have an understanding of computer science, operating system functionality and networking, cloud services, corporate network environments and how to apply this knowledge to cyber security threats.
 
 
 As a Security Consultant, you could work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You may also test client networks, applications and devices by emulating the latest techniques to help them defend against threats, and will be the technical advocate for information security requirements and provide an in-depth understanding of the information security domain. You will also articulate and present complex concepts to business stakeholders, executive leadership, and technical contributors and successfully lead complex engagements alongside cross functional teams.
 
 
 Mandiant Security Transformation Services helps organizations build an security operations program that minimizes organizational risk and reduces the impact of security breaches. With aimed focus in on-premises and cloud architecture, our consultants work from initial assessment, on-site workshops to explore clients on-premises and cloud environment, configuration review of security controls, to detailed practical technical recommendations to harden the on-premises and cloud environment, enhance visibility and detection, and improve processes to reduce the risk of compromise.
 
 
 Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation-state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.
 
 
 
 Responsibilities
 
 
 
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 Identify solution issue trends, and collaborate internally to mitigate future risks.
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 Develop improved solution delivery methods and contribute to solution innovation initiatives.
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 Advise on technical best practices, optimize stakeholder processes, and build relationships.
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 Collaborate with stakeholders to define solutions and address escalations.
 
 
 
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 Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
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Cloud Security Architect, Cloud and Infrastructure, Mandiant (Arabic, English)

Canonical

<div>
 Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
 
 
 The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
 
 
 We are hiring engineering leaders to work across the breadth of our Ubuntu Engineering organisation - leaders who care deeply for quality, performance and resilience in software, and have a proven track record for building, nurturing and developing high performing engineering teams.
 
 
 This leadership track includes roles for managers and Senior+ engineers alike. At Canonical, managers are expected to stay technical and close to the code, and our Senior+ engineers lead and develop software projects, as well as the processes and people around them.
 
 
 Our teams integrate the freshest open source software, provide robust upgrade paths and engineer the future of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not just the world's most deployed open source operating system, it's a platform that enables innovation for millions of users across the globe. Our community represents the full breadth of the developer experience; from students, hobbyists and freelancers to high performance engineering and creative teams in corporate and academic environments.
 
 
 The four key teams that ship Ubuntu are the
 
 
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 Foundations
 
 : maintaining foundational software: architectures, package managers, compilers, toolchains, bootloaders, filesystems and core utilities
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 Server:
 
 leading the design, evolution and future of our Ubuntu Server distribution
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 Desktop:
 
 driving Ubuntu Desktop, our future immutable desktop: Ubuntu Core Desktop, WSL, gaming technology, and a suite of modern applications for the desktop crafted with Flutter
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 Debcrafters:
 
 a new team responsible for the forward movement, maintenance and overall health of the Ubuntu archive: one of the most abundant repositories of open source software available today
 
 
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 You'll be accountable for your technical roadmap, and responsible for your team: helping them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and have a great time while doing it. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution
 
 
 At Canonical, you will have the opportunity to engage with and contribute to the broader open source community. We're looking for individuals who can help build a thriving community and contribute with enthusiasm and precision to a broad range of technologies
 
 
 
 Location
 
 : We have remote roles open in every time zone.
 
 
 
 The role entails
 
 
 
 Based on the first round of interviews, we identify specific teams where you might be an excellent fit and conduct second-round interviews with those teams. Our leads are:
 
 
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 Leading their teams in elevating the Linux developer and user experience
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 Designing, building and shipping high quality, performant software in Rust, Go and Python
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 Demonstrating sound engineering principles through architecture, development and code reviews
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 Taking responsibility for planning, estimation and execution
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 Working with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu
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 Setting expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
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 Offering coaching, mentoring, technical feedback and hands-on career development
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 Contributing to upstream and neighboring open source projects
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 Optimizing the distribution for performance, reliability, and security
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 Debugging complex system-level issues and delivering robust solutions
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 Authoring and improving technical and community documentation
 
 
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 What we are looking for in you
 
 
 
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 An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
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 Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
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 Ability to drive and deliver technical work streams going above and beyond expectations
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 Lead and coach others to deliver exceptional engineering work
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 A demonstrated passion for open source software
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 Significant experience with Rust, Go, Python, Flutter or C/C++
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 Professional written and spoken English
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 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
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 Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
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 Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
 
 
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 Nice-to-have skills
 
 
 
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 Experience contributing to or leading open source projects
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 Experience with Linux distributions/distribution engineering
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 Experience with software packaging and distribution mechanisms
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 Performance or Security Engineering experience
 
 
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 What we offer you
 
 
 
 We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
 
 
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 Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
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 Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
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 Annual compensation review
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 Recognition rewards
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 Annual holiday leave
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 Maternity and paternity leave
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 Employee Assistance Programme
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 Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
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 Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
 
 
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 About Canonical
 
 
 
 Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
 
 
 
 Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
 
 
 
 We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
</div>

Ubuntu Engineering Lead

<div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Minimum qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.</li>
<li>10 years of experience with cloud native architecture in a customer-facing or support role.</li>
<li>Leadership experience such as people management, team lead, mentorship, or coaching.</li></ul> 
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Preferred qualifications:</h3><ul>
<li>Experience as a pre-business manager or a people manager in a technical customer-facing role within a professional services or business engineering team.</li>
<li>Experience with software lifecycle, building tools, and architecting and developing software for distributed systems including data platforms, AI/ML, and infrastructure.</li>
<li>Experience in managing a team through business processes, operations, and career development including account mapping, quota setting, quarterly/annual performance management, and managing information.</li>
<li>Experience in engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders including tailoring and delivering messages by audience, asking questions, and leading conversations that drive business opportunity.</li>
</ul><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">About the job</h2>
The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business &mdash; all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers &mdash; developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies &mdash; see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Customer Engineering (CE) Manager, you will lead and deploy a team of subject matter experts responsible for working with customers to provide trusted technical and solution advice to accelerate workload migration and remove technical impediments.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization&rsquo;s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google&rsquo;s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.</div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Responsibilities</h2><ul>
<li>Lead a team of customer engineers and build a growth culture. Focus on talent strategy and skills development to deliver cloud transformation outcomes for customers and accelerate business goals for your territory.</li>
<li>Promote partnerships with customers across the book of business. Provide leadership related to cloud, transformation, and related industry trends.</li>
<li>Partner with Google Cloud Business leadership to define technical go-to-market strategies and execution plans for the team's business.</li>
<li>Balance technical leadership with operational excellence, lead workload and opportunity review meetings, and provide insight to achieve a technical agreement and migration strategy, working with customers, partners, and prospects.</li>
</ul></div>Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.</div>

Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud

RA Prime

About RA Prime For Direct Trading Co.:RA Prime is a leading global FX and CFD provider, established in 2018 with a commitment to trust, transparency, integrity, and innovation. We serve traders at all skill levels, providing cutting-edge technology and resources for confident trading. We're looking for an IT professional who doesn't just maintain systems but thinks strategically about how technology can drive business transformation and create competitive advantage in the fast-paced financial trading industry.Position Overview:We are seeking a creative and strategic IT Innovation Strategist who can bridge the gap between business needs and technology solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking, understands the unique challenges of financial trading technology, and brings fresh ideas to enhance our systems, security, and user experience . This role is for someone who sees technology not as a support function but as a core driver of business growth and innovation .Key Responsibilities:Strategic Technology Planning (30%)<ul><li>Develop and implement IT strategies aligned with business goals, ensuring technology infrastructure supports company growth and market competitiveness</li><li>Advise leadership on emerging technologies (AI/ML, cloud computing, low-latency systems) and their potential applications in FX/CFD trading</li><li>Conduct technology assessments and feasibility studies for new initiatives, including vendor selection and implementation planning</li><li>Create technology roadmaps that balance innovation with operational stability and security</li><li>Manage IT budget and resources strategically to maximize ROI on technology investments</li></ul>Innovation &amp; Emerging Technologies (25%)<ul><li>Lead the exploration and prototyping of new technologies including Generative AI, agentic AI, and automation tools that can enhance trading platforms and internal operations</li><li>Experiment with AI-powered development tools to accelerate software delivery and improve code quality</li><li>Identify opportunities for cloud transformation and optimization (including FinOps) to improve scalability and cost efficiency</li><li>Stay ahead of industry trends in fintech, low-latency trading systems, and digital transformation</li></ul>Systems Architecture &amp; Development (25%)<ul><li>Design scalable, secure technology architectures that support high-performance trading platforms and low-latency requirements</li><li>Oversee the development and integration of APIs, trading platforms, and internal systems</li><li>Implement DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code to streamline delivery and operations</li><li>Ensure systems are built for high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery</li><li>Collaborate with developers and engineers to produce clean, testable, high-performance code</li></ul>IT Operations &amp; Governance (20%)<ul><li>Establish and enforce IT policies, security protocols, and compliance standards in line with industry regulations</li><li>Implement monitoring, observability, and incident response processes to ensure system reliability</li><li>Manage vendor relationships and technology partnerships</li><li>Ensure data protection, cybersecurity, and business continuity</li><li>Drive continuous improvement in IT service delivery and operational efficiency</li></ul>Qualifications:Education &amp; Experience:<ul><li>Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field</li><li>5-8+ years of progressive IT experience, with at least 2 years in a strategic or leadership role</li><li>Proven experience in financial services, FX/CFD trading, or fintech sectors (strongly preferred)</li><li>Track record of leading technology transformation initiatives and delivering innovative solutions</li></ul>Technical Expertise:<ul><li>Deep understanding of trading systems, low-latency architectures, and market data infrastructure</li><li>Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures</li><li>Knowledge of AI/ML, Generative AI, and their applications in financial technology</li><li>Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code</li><li>Understanding of API design, microservices, and integration patterns</li><li>Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices, data protection, and regulatory compliance</li><li>Programming/scripting skills (Python, Java, C++, or similar) are a plus</li></ul>Strategic Competencies:<ul><li>Strategic thinker who can translate business objectives into technology roadmaps</li><li>Innovative mindset with ability to identify and prototype emerging technologies</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills&mdash;able to assess complex situations and recommend optimal solutions</li><li>Excellent project management abilities&mdash;experience leading cross-functional initiatives</li><li>Vendor management and negotiation skills</li><li>Ability to balance innovation with operational stability and risk management</li></ul>Personal Attributes:<ul><li>Passionate about technology and the financial trading industry</li><li>Creative, resourceful, and comfortable with ambiguity</li><li>Strong communication skills&mdash;able to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders</li><li>Self-motivated, proactive, and results-oriented</li><li>Collaborative team player who can work across departments</li><li>Adaptable and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment</li><li>Continuous learner who stays current with technology trends</li></ul>Job Type: Full-timeWork Location: In person

IT Innovation Strategist - Technology Transformation Lead

<div>
 Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200 colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
 
 
 The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
 
 
 We are hiring an
 
 Information Systems Architect
 
 to define the best practice in infrastructure as code at a global scale. Join us to advance the state of the art, and shape the infrastructure behind tens of millions devices running Ubuntu.
 
 
 The Information Systems (IS) team is responsible for all IT operations at Canonical, including the infrastructure for building, packaging and distributing Ubuntu globally. As the IS architect, you will own the design of hardware and software implementation from PCI lanes to CDN and everything in between. Our goal is to be a reference operation, using the latest capabilities in Ubuntu and open source more generally, with the most modern operating principles. Your choices will impact the Ubuntu user experience for millions of users, and drive how Canonical's engineers engage with compute and network resources in a devops setting.
 
 
 As the IS Architect, you'll be in a unique position to improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies they're based on. You do this by leading System Reliability Engineers (SRE) and Data Center Engineers (DCE) to embrace best practices, and make informed decisions on technology choices in all aspects of cloud infrastructure and services. You will coach the IS team on automation, reliability, operational/technical scalability, network infrastructure and security.
 
 
 This is a home based position, with twice-annual travel to company events totaling around 4 weeks per year.
 
 
 
 Location:
 
 This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region
 
 
 The role entails
 
 
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 Define, get buy-in and implement the holistic vision of a world class internal cloud
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 Setup, maintain and update the technical design roadmap and guidelines for the SREs within IS, with the aim of improving reliability, resilience, operational scalability, and technical scalability
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 Collaborate with, and provide the cloud-ops software development teams with input for roadmap, requirements and prioritization to build a world-class, highly standardized and automated operation
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 Provide the IS management with input and advice with regards to technology, reliability, resilience and business cases
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 Lead technical choices to implement solutions as self-service products, ensuring scalable operation
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 Collaborate with product security as well as operations security to set best practice and mitigate new threats in a timely manner
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 Automate operations for reuse across the world's largest companies, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems
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 Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures
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 Analyze incidents and events, and establish what the reason behind the reasons are, and what structural improvements can be made to minimize the chance of them reoccurring
 
 
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 What we are looking for in you
 
 
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 Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
 </li>
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 Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
 </li>
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 Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
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 Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
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 Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies &amp; operation
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 Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls, internet transit and large scale/bandwidth networking.
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 Experience dealing with significant production outages, incident response and postmortems
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 A passion for writing, sharing, and maintaining enterprise open-source software solutions
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 Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person
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 Be familiarized and passionate about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian
 
 
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 Nice-to-have skills
 
 
 
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 Modern software engineering background (peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI/CD, Agile)
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 Hands-on experience of automatic administration of enterprise Linux servers at scale
 
 
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 </ul>
 What we offer colleagues
 
 
 We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
 
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
 </li>
 <li>
 Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
 </li>
 <li>
 Annual compensation review
 </li>
 <li>
 Recognition rewards
 </li>
 <li>
 Annual holiday leave
 </li>
 <li>
 Maternity and paternity leave
 </li>
 <li>
 Employee Assistance Program
 </li>
 <li>
 Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
 </li>
 <li>
 Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
 
 
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 About Canonical
 
 
 
 Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
 
 
 
 Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
 
 
 
 We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
 
 
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Information Systems - Open Source Technical Architect

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