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Cloud Solutions Architect

Beijing, China (On-site)

Cloud Solutions Architect

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • DevOps

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Description

Position at Wind River

Wind River

In a world increasingly driven by software innovation, Wind River is pioneering the technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of our customers with a new generation of Mission Critical AI Systems in an AI-first world with the most exacting standards for safety, security, performance, and reliability. Success will be determined by our ability to innovate with velocity and sell at the solutions level.

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), and aerospace & defense. We were recognized by VDC Research in July 2020 as #1 in Edge Compute OS Platforms, overtaking Microsoft as the overall commercial leader. Wind River regularly wins industry recognitions for excellence in IoT security, cloud and edge computing, as well as 8 consecutive years as a “Top Work Place”. If you’re passionate about amplifying your impact on the world, in a caring, respectful culture with a growth mindset, come join us and help lead the way into the future of the intelligent edge!

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

This role requires managing the technical requirements of companies from Industrial, Health Care, Transportation and other sectors. You will leverage the OpenInfra Foundation’s StarlingX project to deliver geographically distributed, high-performance, production grade Kubernetes-based solutions for managing edge cloud infrastructure. Optimized for the network edge, the solutions you will support address customers’ challenges of deploying and managing a physically distributed, cloud native infrastructure.

You must have experience in software engineering with a strong focus on networking. You must be capable of understanding the customer’s problems and whiteboarding solutions using our product offerings and services. You should also know and have lived through commercial software project development cycles and have a good understanding of project management. Some amount of travel will be required.

Interface & Collaboration

Report directly to Director, Cloud Solutions Engineering. You will be an integral part of the cloud solutions engineering & architects’ team you will work with specialized Account Managers (AM)/Directors and strive to become the trusted technical advisor to our customers understanding their business needs and addressing those needs through Wind River’s products, services, and solutions. You will collaborate with the accounts team, engineering, product management, and other members from the solutions engineering team.

Responsibilities

Manage all technical needs of assigned accounts utilizing all available resources.
Serve as a single technical point of contact, become the customer’s trusted advisor and the Wind River solutions expert.
Listen to customer’s needs then Architect, Develop, and deliver Proof of Concepts (POCs), Demos, and Presentations.
Understand the customer use cases and help develop part of the POC or Demo.
Exhibit leadership skills during customer requirements analysis and creating technical solutions as well as identifying potential business opportunities.
Understanding and contributing to relevant Open-source standards and community projects is a must. Participation in open-source projects will be business needs.
Provide consistent market feedback to Wind River.
Remove technical barriers for Wind River solutions.
Increase Wind River market share with each customer.

ABOUT YOU

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

Be hands-on in the development of customer’s proof of concepts (POCs), extending product features, and testing code.
Experience in open-source projects such as StarlingX, Kubernetes and OpenStack is a benefit. The ability and desire to contribute to these projects while representing the company is a must.
Technical Pre-sales Experience, comfort, and confidence in front of customers
Able to work independently in Customer location/Labs.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should have 6+ years of software development or solutions architecting experience in the following areas:
Working/functional knowledge of network stacks, switching, routing, etc.
Strong knowledge of mainstream cloud technologies and their application in multiple sectors.
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), ETSI and ORAN Alliance Specs.
Linux background covering deployment, image build, application on multiple mainstream Linux distributions and good understanding in kernel development will be better to have.
Adept at various programming languages: Scripting languages like Python, Bash and Golang, C++/C are better to have.
Must have, English written and oral language skills, enabling business discussion/dialogue

BENEFITS & PERKS

Birthday and Volunteer Time off
Competitive Benefits Package
Life and Disease Insurance
Annual Medical Check-up
Selective Working Hour
Employee Assistance Program

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.

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