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Senior Cloud Tester - Distributed Cloud

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Kanata, ON, CAN

In-Office

Senior level

Automotive

The Role

The Senior Cloud Tester develops high-quality, testable code for Linux processes, manages configurations, resolves issues in distributed systems, and contributes to an open-source cloud project, ensuring high availability for applications.

Summary Generated by Built In

Senior Cloud Tester - Distributed Cloud

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 in the areas of configuration management, fault management and host management. In addition, Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open Source StarlingX cloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed Edge solutions, primarily 5G.

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

Responsibilities:

Develop high quality, testable code for processes that run natively on Linux
Develop solutions that are highly available across multiple linux hosts
Develop solutions for configuration management across multiple linux hosts
Develop solutions for process monitoring and recovery of services running in Linux
Develop solutions for configuration and state information backup and retrieval to restore systems to a previous point in time
Diagnose issues related to Linux processes in high availability, process monitoring, system active / standby failover and configuration management

Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the OpenStack Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge ( https://www.starlingx.io/)
Work as part of a team focused on building and maintaining Linux-based platform services that ensure high availability for Kubernetes based applications
Investigate and resolve issues reported during product verification and customer integration.
Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.

Qualifications/Skills:

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field
years of professional software development experience
years of programming experience with Python
years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
years of professional experience building infrastructure software for distributed systems

Experience in OSTree, Ansible, Puppet
Proficient in C/C++
Contribution to the open-source community is an asset
Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
Strong analytical and debugging skills

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics.

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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Skills Required

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field
Professional software development experience
Programming experience with Python
Experience contributing to system architecture and design
Professional experience building infrastructure software for distributed systems
Experience in OSTree, Ansible, Puppet
Proficiency in C/C++
Contribution to the open-source community
Strong analytical and debugging skills

APTIV Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company contribution and competitive matching is described as a notable component of the total rewards package. Equity participation and performance bonuses are also positioned as part of long-term and variable compensation.
Healthcare Strength — Core coverage is portrayed as broad, spanning medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. Mental health resources and an Employee Assistance Program are also included as part of wellness support.
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, paid sick days, and flexible time-off policies are included in the benefits mix. Flexible scheduling and remote-work programs further support time management and personal needs.