About Wind River
Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.
Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.
The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion \& belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.
About the Team
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 full software stack solutions to fulfill the strict requirements of edge computing use cases from security to high availability. The team delivers builds, build infrastructure and security across our product line.
The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills. You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment developing critical OS and applicaiton features. 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.
Job Summary:
As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the direction of the WRCP Linux solution and delivering a product that meets the needs of our users. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Debian/Linux systems, experience with package management, and a commitment to open-source contribution.
As a seasoned manager you will be running our Wind River Cloud DevSecOps team responsible for all aspects of DevOps and SecOps; make strategic decisions and participate in all the stages of the software development lifecycle to ensure delivery of a high-quality product. You will have the opportunity to work with a collaborative and innovative team of engineers who are passionate about Linux and open-source software. Our team values transparency, open communication, and continuous learning and has a track record of delivering high-quality products that make a real impact.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the direction of Wind River Cloud products and work with a talented team of engineers to deliver a product that will make a real difference in the lives of our users.
Responsibilities
Managing a team of Cloud engineers contributing to ongoing releases of Wind River Cloud Platform including career planning, goal setting, performance assessment, coaching, performance improvement, compensation, conflict resolution, and other people management tasks.
Develop in an open community, build products based on open-source technologies, and contribute to open-source projects such as Kubernetes, OpenStack and StarlingX.
Sprint planning and coordination across scrum teams.
Working with a team of other development and program managers to coordinate work and assure delivery of projects and products.
Process development and implementation for the direct team and department.
Contributing to budget allocation and monitoring.
Interfacing to various other parts of the company such as Test, Engineering Operations, and Product Management
Core Competencies \& Demonstrated Success
Development engineering management skills as demonstrated by experience in planning and leading multiple engineering projects using modern project management techniques, including Agile/Scrum; building and motivating highly performing development teams to accomplish progressively aggressive goals; instill vision and direction clearly and create atmosphere of proactive ownership in team members; and superior skills in diagnosing and solving typical development issues.
Personal skills such as: time planning and organization; nimbleness; verbal and written communications to wide variety of audiences; effectiveness as a team member; enthusiastic leadership; personal drive, energy, resourcefulness, and perseverance; integrity; adaptability to new and uncertain environments; a desire to improve practices and processes; and enthusiastic leadership.
Experience contributing to open-source projects and leading development in the open-source community.
The ability to be an effective member of a team of managers including a drive to accomplish the collective goals of the team; the ability to fairly and effectively negotiate; and an attitude that puts the good of the team ahead of one's individual needs when required.
Experience in people management including; career planning; performance assessments; performance improvement; mentoring and helping people grow; compensation; and general care of development engineers.
Successful track record of prioritizing and quickly responding to urgent customer needs and adjusting other engineering work to accommodate. Ability to interact with partner and customer counterparts when required.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s / master's degree in computer science or related field.
10+ years of relevant software development experience.
7+ years software development management as part of a larger team with interdependent responsibilities in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with infrastructure software development, Linux development and related products or operating systems
Track record of building and delivering mission-critical, 24x7 production software systems.
Contribution to the open-source community.
Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
Strong analytical and debugging skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Experience in Cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and/or StarlingX.
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