Member of Technical Staff - DevOps

110 USA Wind River; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work

Health, dental, and life insurance

RRSP matching

Vacation and time off

Employee well-being programs

LinkedIn Learning & seminars

Job summary

Wind River is seeking a Member of Technical Staff - Cloud to strengthen reliability, automation, build, release, and developer experience of our cloud platform products. You will influence how engineering teams build, test, release, troubleshoot, and operate platform software in a complex distributed environment.

The role requires versatile software engineering skills, ability to manage priorities, and strong leadership to drive issues to closure across DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 6 to 8 years of software engineering experience 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 of systems
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD ecosystems such as Gerrit, Zuul, Jenkins, and GitLab CI
• Experience with automation and complex platform tooling including configuration management, deployment automation, artifact management, container registries, and image build pipelines

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
• Develop and deliver platform features with high quality design and code
• Build tooling that improves developer productivity, reduces SDLC friction
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.

Job description

Why Choose Wind River?

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, powering secure, reliable, and high-performance technology across telecommunications, automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial, healthcare, and medical industries.

The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world, from playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers, to achieving 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.

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, StarlingX, Helm, and Ansible to deliver highly distributed, carrier-grade intelligent edge platforms.

As a leading contributor to the open-source StarlingX project, Wind River helps shape the future of distributed cloud infrastructure for 5G, industrial automation, autonomous systems, and intelligent edge use cases.

Join a team where your work has real-world impact, your engineering contributions matter, and the culture is grounded in growth mindset, customer focus, collaboration, and inclusion.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff - Cloud who can help strengthen the reliability, automation, build, release, and developer experience of our cloud platform products. This role is not limited to maintaining pipelines or resolving build issues. The right candidate will be expected to improve how engineering teams build, test, release, troubleshoot, and operate platform software across a complex distributed product environment.

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. Impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.

This person should be comfortable working across software engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release engineering, and open-source cloud-native technologies.

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• From 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

This role is compensationrangeis between $110,000 to $139,000 CAD annual plus annual incentive plan bonus. Compensation is determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company’s plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, vacation time, eligibility to enroll in RRSP, and paid holidays.

BENEFITS -Canada

• Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.
• 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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