Senior DevOps Engineer

Aptiv; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid holidays

RRSP eligibility

Hybrid work model

Learning benefits

Job summary

Wind River is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to strengthen reliability, automation, build, release, and developer experience across our cloud platform products. You will influence how engineering teams build, test, release, troubleshoot, and operate platform software in a distributed environment.

The role requires versatility, strong judgment, and the ability to lead across software engineering, DevOps, and open-source cloud-native tech.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field required.
• 3–5 years in software engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles with relevant experience.
• 3+ years Python or Linux programming experience; strong CI/CD skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve CI/CD workflows for Wind River Cloud Platform and related products.
• Enhance build reliability, release readiness, and pipeline telemetry.
• Develop automation to reduce manual effort across build, test, release, and deployment.
• Work with Kubernetes, OpenStack, StarlingX, Helm, Ansible for edge deployments.
• Collaborate across teams in an agile environment; drive issues to closure.

Skills

Python

Linux

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Automation

Education

Bachelor's / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Gerrit

Zuul

Jenkins

GitLab CI

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 Senior DevOps Engineer 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

• Owner 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.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or release engineering with a Bachelor's degree or 4+ years with a Master’s degree.
• 3+ years of programming experience with Python or Linux.
• 1+ 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.

Plus

• Experience with automation and platform tooling, including configuration management, deployment automation, artifact management, container registries, and image build pipelines.
• Ability to work across multiple teams and drive issues to closure without needing constant direction.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with StarlingX, OpenStack, Kubernetes, or edge/cloud infrastructure platforms supporting distributed, carrier-grade, or mission-critical systems.
• 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 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.

Compensation

This role is compensation range is between $95,000 to $120,000 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.

Benefits

• health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, vacation time, eligibility to enroll in RRSP, and paid holidays.
• 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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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Aptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Aptiv is a global technology company that develops safer, greener and more connected solutions enabling the future of mobility. Headquartered in Dublin, Aptiv has approximately 180,000+ employees and operates 12 technical centers, as well as manufacturing sites and customer support centers in 44 countries. Visit aptiv.com.

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