Senior DevOps Engineer

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.

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