Member of Technical Staff - DevOps
About The Position
Wind River is seeking a Member of Technical Staff - Cloud to enhance the reliability, automation, build, release, and developer experience of their cloud platform products. This role involves more than just maintaining pipelines or fixing build issues; the ideal candidate will improve how engineering teams build, test, release, troubleshoot, and operate platform software in a complex distributed product environment. The position requires proven software engineering skills, versatility, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic setting. Candidates should be comfortable managing competing priorities, bringing order to ambiguity, and possess impeccable judgment and leadership qualities. This role spans software engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release engineering, and open-source cloud-native technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 6 to 8 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or release engineering with a Bachelor's degree or 7+ years with a Master’s degree.
- 5+ years of programming experience with Python.
- 3+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD ecosystems such as Gerrit, Zuul, Jenkins, and GitLab CI, including build reliability, pipeline optimization, release readiness, and actionable reporting.
- Experience with automation and complex platform tooling, including configuration management, deployment automation, artifact management, container registries, and image build pipelines.
Nice To Haves
- Solid experience with StarlingX, OpenStack, Kubernetes, or edge/cloud infrastructure platforms supporting distributed, carrier-grade, or mission-critical systems.
- Strong experience supporting source control and CI/CD modernization or migration efforts, pipeline conversion, runner strategy, repository governance, branching models, access controls, and developer enablement.
- Experience improving & scaling observability and operational reliability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, engineering metrics, troubleshooting workflows, and production-readiness practices.
- Experience working in open-source, Agile, and globally distributed engineering environments, with strong ownership, collaboration, and ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations.
- Exposure to Kiro, Amazon Q or similar agentic/spec-driven development tools is an asset.
Responsibilities
- Ownership of the virtualization environment for the Wind River Cloud Platform product.
- Own and improve CI/CD workflows supporting Wind River Cloud Platform, Conductor, and related products.
- Improve build reliability, release readiness, build reporting, failure analysis, and actionable pipeline telemetry.
- Develop automation to reduce manual effort across build, test, release, deployment, troubleshooting, and operational workflows.
- Work with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Ansible, OpenStack, and StarlingX to support distributed edge and carrier-grade platform deployments.
- Act as a senior technical contributor who brings structure to ambiguous problems, communicates risks clearly, and drives issues to closure.
- Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the Open Infrastructure Foundation - a fully featured cloud infrastructure software stack for the edge (https://www.starlingx.io/).
- Develop and deliver platform features with high quality design and code.
- Build tooling that improves developer productivity, reduces SDLC friction, and makes engineering workflows more repeatable.
- Act as a senior technical contributor who brings structure to ambiguous problems, communicates risks clearly, and drives issues to closure.
- Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.
Benefits
- health, dental, vision insurance
- life insurance
- vacation time
- eligibility to enroll in RRSP
- paid holidays
- Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
- Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.
- Matching RRSP.
- Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
- Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.
- Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
