Senior Principal Solution Architect

Title: Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

Location: US - West/East

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. Wind River’s impact spans critical infrastructure domains such as Telecommunications, including 5G; Industrial (automation, sustainable energy, robotics, mining); Connected Healthcare and Medical Devices; Automotive (connected and self-driving vehicles.

The company has received numerous industry recognition for its technological 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 OPPORTUNITY

You will be part of the dynamic, talented Field engineering organization leadership working closely with customers in Telecom, Medical, Robotics, Industrial to understand their expected business outcome and address them through Wind River Cloud portfolio. The existing design wins include 5G vRAN, Cloud Robotics, Cloud connected Automotive vehicles and managing VM workloads for high compute medical applications.

You must have deep experience in Cloud native architectures, deploying both Container and VM workloads in on-prem or hybrid cloud environment. You should be capable of understanding customers’ problems and be able to effectively communicate solutions using our product offerings and services. You should also know and have experience with software project development and deployment cycles.

Some travel globally might be required.

Interface & Collaboration

Collaborating with the leading provider of integrated embedded software solutions, you will work with some of the most talented engineers across the different verticals to draft technical solutions to challenging problems.

As our customers look to gain a competitive advantage in this digital first world, they are looking for companies like Wind River to partner with in their journey. Wind River is answering this call through our delivery of the world’s first Cloud Native Environment that enables developers of intelligent edge devices to transform and optimize their device life cycle from Development to Deployment, to Operations, and Servicing.

Your opportunity is to join as a customer facing subject matter expert of an incredibly talented and motivated, customer-facing field engineering team. You will be responsible for understanding our customers' business and technical needs and collaborating with them in the capacity of a technical evangelist and trusted advisor in crafting the next generation of Intelligent systems using WR technology and Solutions.

 Responsibilities

• As an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect in a customer facing role, you will work with customers to understand their requirements around the Container/VM workload deployment and Orchestration and architect the solution leveraging both the WR Cloud Platform and Wind River Linux portfolio.

• Serve as the primary technical architect and advisor in implementing the WRCP for use cases beyond the Telco applications.
• Work with the Account team and FAEs of the account to qualify the Cloud opportunities and architect the solutions leveraging WR products.
• Deliver Proof of Concepts, Demos, and Presentations that resonate with customers’ business needs by partnering with the broader FEO organization and leveraging their required skills.

ABOUT YOU

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success 

• Experience in customer facing technical pre-sales/Solution Architecting roles with the ability to define/design and deliver the POCs for the customers.
• Been in the role of Field CTO or Chief Architect and demonstrated success in helping customers achieve their business outcome.
• Expertise in open-source projects and technologies such as StarlingX, Kubernetes, and cloud-native solutions and known contribution to these projects is a plus.
• Strong background in customer engagement and solution delivery within the telecommunications sector.
• Hands-on Knowledge of RH OpenShift and Suse’s Rancher and relevant certification is a plus.
• Experience with DevSecOps development methodologies including an understanding of tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker etc.; certifications with such are a plus.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and stakeholders.
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams including Sales, Product and engineering.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software development or solutions architecture, with experience in working with customers directly.
• Strong knowledge of wireless/cellular telecom, and 5G edge deployments[PJ1].
• Experience in network system-level solution design.
• Expertise in virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, orchestration, OpenStack, and cloud-native technologies.
• Exposure to SDN concepts, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and ETSI-MANO.
• Linux background covering deployment, image build, application and kernel development.
• Experience in Container/VM workload orchestration.
• Experience in VM deployment using Openstack, KubeVirt.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, including C++/C and scripting languages like Python.
• Must be legally able to work in the U.S. without requirement of any type of visa sponsorship or transfer at any time, now or in the future.

Benefits

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row
• Wind River’s commitment to DEIB
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
• Flexible Time Off policy** + 12 observed Holidays
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind

*varies by region and country

** varies by region and country

 Compensation        

The OTE (salary plus commission) for this role’s listed grade level is currently $274,500 to $290,000 for residents in the states of Colorado, New York and New Jersey; and $283,000 to $300,000 for residents in the states of California and Washington, and the NYC area. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, location and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, 12 paid holidays.

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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