Cloud Solutions Architect

Description

Position at Wind River

Cloud Solutions Architect (Remote, UK).

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

This role requires managing the technical requirements of our go-to-market efforts with a major partner, working closely with internal teams and this partner ecosystem. Your efforts will enable our partner to better sell solutions that include Wind River products. You will position and provide support for Wind River’s portfolio including eLxr Pro Linux, Studio Operator and other Wind River Edge products as needed. You will also leverage the OpenStack Foundation’s StarlingX project to deliver geographically distributed, high-performance, production-grade Kubernetes-based solutions for managing edge cloud infrastructure. The solutions you will support address complex challenges of deploying physically distributed clouds at scale and managing highly available and secure platforms for modern enterprise applications.

You should have a solid foundation in software engineering with exposure to networking, cloud platforms, and enterprise IT systems, ideally with experience or familiarity with ServiceNow workflows or integrations. You must be capable of understanding the partners’ and end customers’ problems and whiteboarding solutions using our product offerings and services. You should also have experience working on software projects and a good understanding of the software development lifecycle. Some amount of travel will be required.

Interface & Collaboration

Report directly to the Senior Director of Sales and Field Applications Engineers. You will be an integral part of sales team and the broader community of solution architects and specialized Account Managers/Directors and strive to become the trusted technical advisor to our partner and their customers by understanding their business needs and addressing those needs through Wind River’s products, services, and solutions. You will collaborate with the ServiceNow partner team, engineering, product management, professional services, and other members of the solutions engineering team to align joint efforts and support customer-facing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage all technical needs of the assigned partner utilizing all available resources.
• Support technical enablement and assist in becoming a trusted advisor to the ServiceNow partner teams.
• Listen to partner’s needs, then assist in the development and delivery of Proofs of Concept, demonstrations, and technical presentations.
• Understand the end customer use cases and help develop part of the POC or Demo.
• Support integration scenarios involving ServiceNow workflows, APIs, or cloud service hooks.
• Participation in open-source projects will be based on business needs.
• Provide consistent market feedback to Wind River.
• Remove technical barriers for Wind River solutions.
• Increase Wind River's market share globally.

How you will contribute

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• Be hands-on in assisting with customer proof of concepts (PoCs) and testing solution integrations.
• Familiarity with open-source projects like Kubernetes is a must.
• Understanding of exposure to ServiceNow workflows, APIs, or automation is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of modern enterprise IT infrastructure, private/hybrid cloud platforms, OSS/BSS and application performance management tools is a strong plus.
• Experience explaining technical concepts to a large audience, comfort, and confidence in front of customers.
• Understanding of ITSM , ITOM , ITAM , GRC Process is a strong plus .
• Able to work independently in partner and end customer locations/labs.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have 7-10 years of experience in software engineering, cloud platforms, or IT infrastructure:

• Working/functional knowledge of network stacks, switching, routing, etc.
• Understanding of enterprise IT architectures and modern infrastructure platforms (data center, edge, and cloud) and knowledge of telecom networks.
• Knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation or similar products.
• Experience in system-level solution design, including enterprise workload orchestration.
• Familiarity with virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, orchestration, OpenStack, and cloud-native technologies is preferred.
• Understanding of ITSM platforms like ServiceNow, including experience with programming (C++/C) and scripting (Ansible, Python, Perl), integrations, or automation workflows, is a strong advantage.
• Exposure to software-defined infrastructure, virtualization, and distributed system management.
• Linux background covering deployment, image build, application, and kernel development.
• Must have English language skills enabling business discussion/dialogue.
• Travel at short notice availability required up to 25%.

Your Benefits:

• Health and life insurance: Wind River provides a company-sponsored life insurance offering x3 base salary cover, from the first day of employment
• Income protection: Wind River offers company-sponsored permanent health insurance from the first day of employment, providing earnings-related income protection in the event of extended periods of illness or injury disability.
• Healthcare: Company-funded healthcare is available to all employees, including vision care and AD&D coverage
• Dental: Wind River offers comprehensive cover with any qualified dentistry practice. Cover
• Wind Gives Back: All employees are encouraged to take advantage of five paid days each year to volunteer with not-for-profit community organisations or activities in their communities.
• Birthday time off: Wind River offers all employees a day off annually to celebrate their birthday, to be taken around the time of the special day

APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be found here.

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“Wind River 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”

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.

Wind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

Diversity is foundational for Wind River’s business success. We want to be a workplace of choice for all people and we value the unique perspectives offered by a diverse workforce. Wind River does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, age, ancestry, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status. This principle applies to all areas of employment: recruitment and hiring, training, performance evaluations, promotions and transfers, compensation and benefits, and social and recreational programs.

Wind River desires to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all individuals. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, Wind River provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees. Requests for reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees are examined on a case-by-case basis. Please let us know if you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application, interviewing, hiring or at any other time during the employment process. You can email us at: benefits@windriver.com. Please do not include personal medical information in the email.

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