[Hiring] Senior Engineer – Cloud Platforms & Virtualization @Aptiv

Role Description

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects like Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack and fast-paced Open-Source technologies that are in high demand from our customers. Wind River Cloud has adopted these technologies into the core of our product, which is driving us to find experienced and high-performing individuals that can learn and contribute to these container and virtualization solutions.

In addition, Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open Source StarlingX cloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed Edge solutions, including 5G, Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial Automation and Augmented Reality. Wind River contributes and builds upon the work within StarlingX to ensure it meets the demands of these critical applications.

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills. You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop software for a complete cloud infrastructure software stack.
• Develop high quality designs and code based on Kubernetes, containerized applications, distributed cloud systems, and cloud infrastructure management.
• Work as part of a team focused on containerization and fault tolerant/carrier grade development.
• Work with the most dynamic and exciting open-source software projects today – Kubernetes, OpenStack, KubeVirt, Helm, Ansible, Puppet, OSTree.
• Develop and deliver platform upgrade features with high quality design and code.
• Stay current with the latest advancements in OpenStack and related core technologies, incorporating them into the platform where appropriate.
• Investigate and resolve issues reported during product verification.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Deep understanding of virtualization technologies such as OpenStack architecture and components, including Nova, Neutron.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience with Bachelor’s.
• 3+ years of professional experience in developing infrastructure software for highly scalable and distributed systems, working with Kubernetes and Helm charts.
• Solid understanding of working and architecture of virtualization technologies such as OpenStack (including Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, etc), VMware vCenter, Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift.
• 2+ years of programming experience with C/C++ and Python.
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Desirable Qualifications

• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems.
• Contribution to OpenStack community or related other open-source projects.
• Deep knowledge of cloud storage solutions.
• Working knowledge in L2/L3 networking and OVS.
• C/C++ network programming.
• Experience with Debian packaging, OSTree.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Passion for mentoring other developing engineers.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Benefits

• Workplace flexibility.
• 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.