Senior Manager - Linux OS

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Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, with over four decades of innovation. They help customers in automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges, powering systems for NASA space missions and 5G advancements. The Cloud team focuses on large-scale projects involving Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, and fast-paced Open-Source technologies for edge computing. The Senior Manager - Linux OS will manage the technical roadmap for the OS layer of the Wind River Cloud Product, lead a team of Linux engineers, and contribute to open-source projects like Kubernetes, OpenStack, and StarlingX. Responsibilities include sprint planning, process development, budget allocation, risk mitigation, and interfacing with other departments and customers.

Must have:

Development engineering management skills
Agile/Scrum experience
Open-source community contribution
People management experience
Prioritize customer needs
Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS or related field
10+ years of software development experience
7+ years of software development management experience
Infrastructure software development experience
Experience with mission-critical production software systems
Strong analytical and debugging skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Experience in Cloud technologies (OpenStack, Kubernetes, StarlingX)

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Senior Manager - Linux OS

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 including 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 developing critical OS/Kernel features. 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.

JOB SUMMARY

As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the direction of the WRCP Linux solution and delivering a product that meets the needs of our users. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Debian/Linux systems, experience with package management, and a commitment to open-source contribution.

As a seasoned Debian Linux Development Manager, you will make strategic decisions and participate in all the stages of the software development lifecycle to ensure delivery of a high-quality product. You will have the opportunity to work with a collaborative and innovative team of engineers who are passionate about Linux and open-source software. Our team values transparency, open communication, and continuous learning and has a track record of delivering high-quality products that make a real impact.

YOUR ROLE

As a Senior Manager - Linux OS on our team, you’ll:

Manage technical roadmap for the OS layer of Wind River Cloud Product
Managing a team of Linux engineers contributing to ongoing releases of Wind River Cloud Platform including career planning, goal setting, performance assessment, coaching, performance improvement, compensation, conflict resolution, and other people management tasks.
Develop in an open community, build products based on open-source technologies, and contribute to open-source projects such as Kubernetes, OpenStack and StarlingX.
Sprint planning and coordination across scrum teams.
Working with a team of other development and program managers to coordinate work and ensure delivery of projects and products.
Process development and implementation for the direct team and department.
Contributing to budget allocation and monitoring.
Interfacing to various other parts of the company such as Test, Engineering Operations, and Product Management
Identify and mitigate technical risks and help develop contingency plans as needed.

CORE COMPETENCIES & DEMONSTRATED SUCCESS

Development engineering management skills as demonstrated by experience in planning and leading multiple engineering projects using modern project management techniques, including Agile/Scrum; building and motivating highly performing development teams to accomplish progressively aggressive goals; install vision and direction clearly and create atmosphere of proactive ownership in team members; and superior skills in diagnosing and solving typical development issues.
Personal skills such as: time planning and organization; nimbleness; verbal and written communications to wide variety of audiences; effectiveness as a team member; enthusiastic leadership; personal drive, energy, resourcefulness, and perseverance; integrity; adaptability to new and uncertain environments; a desire to improve practices and processes; and enthusiastic leadership.
Experience contributing to open-source projects and leading development in the open-source community.
The ability to be an effective member of a team of managers including a drive to accomplish the collective goals of the team; the ability to fairly and effectively negotiate; and an attitude that puts the good of the team ahead of one's individual needs when required.
Experience in people management including: career planning; performance assessments; performance improvement; mentoring and helping people grow; compensation; and general care of development engineers.
Successful track record of prioritizing and quickly responding to urgent customer needs and adjusting other engineering work to accommodate. Ability to interact with partner and customer counterparts when required.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

Bachelor’s / master's degree in computer science or related field.
10+ years of relevant software development experience.
7+ years software development management as part of a larger team with interdependent responsibilities in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Experience with infrastructure software development.
Track record of building and delivering mission-critical, 24x7 production software systems.
Contribution to the open-source community.
Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
Strong analytical and debugging skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Experience in Cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and/or StarlingX.

APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:

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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.