Senior Solutions architect

Aptiv; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Wind River is seeking a highly skilled Senior Solutions Architect – Cloud Native / CaaS to join our Global Presales Organization in California, reporting to the Senior Director of Presales. The role focuses on Cloud-as-a-Service, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, storage, networking, automation, and cloud migration technologies to help customers transform their environments.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on engineering with strong presales skills, leading architecture from concept to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, systems engineering, cloud architecture, presales, or related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with Cloud-as-a-Service (CaaS) and cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, partners, and field teams throughout the lifecycle.
• Engage with customers to understand objectives, requirements, and cloud transformation strategies.
• Develop end-to-end solution architectures leveraging CaaS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infra.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Automation

Presales

Multi-cloud

Python

Go

Terraform

Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

APIs

Job description

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.

YOUR ROLE

We are seeking a highly skilled and customer-focused Senior Solutions Architect – Cloud Native / CaaS to join ourGlobal Presales Organization, reporting to theSenior Director, Presales.

The Senior Solutions Architect will serve as a technical subject‑matter expert and strategic advisor for customers, partners, and internal teams, with a strong focus on Cloud-as-a-Service (CaaS), cloud‑native platforms, Kubernetes, storage, networking, automation, and cloud migration technologies.

This role will work closely with customers and cross‑functional teams to understand complex business and technical challenges, architect innovative solutions, demonstrate platform capabilities, develop proof‑of‑concepts, and build automation frameworks that accelerate adoption and migration across heterogeneous cloud environments.

The ideal candidate combines deep hands‑on engineering expertise with strong customer‑facing presales skills and the ability to take a solution from concept through architecture, proof‑of‑concept, demonstration, and production adoption.

In your daily job you will:

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers, partners, and field sales teams throughout the customer lifecycle.
• Engage with customers to understand their business objectives, technical requirements, application architectures, and cloud transformation strategies.
• Develop end-to-end solution architectures leveraging CaaS, Kubernetes, cloud‑native infrastructure, storage, networking, and automation technologies.
• Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and executive-level technical discussions.
• Deliver compelling technical presentations and customizedcustomer demonstrationsshowcasing platform capabilities and business value.
• Support account teams in developing technical strategies, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, and solution positioning.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes for both technical and executive audiences.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of experiencein solutions architecture, systems engineering, cloud architecture, technical consulting, presales, or a related field.
• Strong hands‑on experience withCloud-as-a-Service (CaaS) and cloud‑native technologies.
• Deep understanding ofKubernetes and container technologies.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and at least one major public cloud platform such asAWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding ofstorage technologies, distributed systems, and persistent storage for cloud‑native workloads.
• Strong understanding ofcloud‑native networking and Kubernetes networking concepts.
• Hands‑on experience developing automation using technologies such asPython, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, APIs, or similar tools.
• Experience designing and implementingProofs of Concept and customer demonstrations.
• Experience developing automation frameworks forcloud migration, workload migration, or infrastructure transformation.
• Strong understanding of hybrid‑cloud and multi‑cloud architectures.
• Excellent communication, presentation, technical writing, and customer‑facing skills.
• Ability to work effectively with both highly technical engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel globally to support strategic customer engagements when required.

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.

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