Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Description
Position at Wind River
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Wind River is a leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge. This role requires the understanding and delivery of the technical requirements of major networking and telecom operators. You will leverage Wind River’s Cloud Platform 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 service provider’s complex challenges of deploying and managing a physically distributed, cloud native infrastructure.
You must have experience in software engineering with a strong focus on Telecom and data networking. Yu will need to apply your technical expertise, passion for open source to understand the customer’s problems and develop solutions using our product offerings and services.

A qualified candidate is expected to be hands-on in the deployment of Wind River’s Cloud platform, extending product features, working with hardware, and testing code. Experience in open-source projects such as Ansible, Python, OpenStack, StarlingX, Git and Markdown is a benefit.

Responsibilities

Provide technical guidance and delivery of projects based on Wind River’s Cloud Platform to Communication Service Provider (CSP) customers.
Work with Professional Services Project Managers to prepare project descriptions, identify task lists, set schedules, determine engineering hours, estimate project risk and deliver on successful bids.
This is a direct customer facing position and requires comfort with customers and issue resolution.
Some travel may be required.


ABOUT YOU

This is a direct customer facing position and requires comfort with customers and issue resolution.
You are authoritative in your decision making and drive solutions, based upon service management essentials.
Enjoy working on leading edge technologies and projects.
Expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Elastic, Kafka, and cloud-native technologies (Type-1 and Type-2).
Strong Problem-solving skills based upon a myriad of differing scenarios (Network/performance/hardware)
Ability to replicate customer issues in a Wind River lab
Ability to think laterally
Storage configuration expertise such as RAID/Ceph/NFSv3+v4 (on NetApp a plus).
Strong knowledge of Compute Cluster concepts.
Working/functional knowledge of network stacks, switching, routing, etc.
An understanding of how to integrate into Assurance systems.
Be comfortable with building, reconfiguring and provisioning lab equipment such as servers physical and virtual routers and networks (including IPv4/6) in both Wind River and customers’ lab environments. BMC configurations (iDRAC/ILO/IPM/Redfish).
Experience in network system-level solution design.
Exposure to SDN concepts, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and ETSI-MANO.
Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) background covering deployment, image build, application, and administration.
Adept at Python and automation languages like Ansible.
The ability to work on a team & independently on multiple high priority projects.
Be willing to work in an ambiguous environment and willing to self-learn.
Verbal communications via articulation of past project details desired outcomes and written communication skills.
Organizational and interpersonal skills, plus proven relationship building abilities.



Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent.
Cloud based certification (AWS/Azure/GCP), or Kubernetes certs - CKA/CKSS/CKAD
4 years of relevant work experience.



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.