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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.\nWind 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 inNASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent5G milestones includingthe world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and buildingone of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.\nThe 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 wherethelived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset,customer-focus, anddiversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.\nABOUT THE TEAM\nThis is a critical role that will evolve configuration management into a cloud-native operator model on Kubernetes. This role will lay important foundations as Wind River Cloud Platform replaces legacy configuration (e.g. Puppet) with a declarative configuration model based on Kubernetes operators. Designed for production grade support, these operators encapsulate existing business logic, upgrade support, security, observability, performance and scaling, and lifecycle management. \nThe right candidate will possess maturity in Kubernetes, ideally building operators, with proven software engineering skills to deliver robust applications that scale, and a quality automation mindset. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.\nThe candidate will have also contribute to the linux applications that integrate with the Kubernetes operators, in domains such as host management, service management, and fault management.\nThis is an exciting opportunity to have a big impact on cloud-native configuration management and contribute to open-source software that is heavily used at scale in critical 5G Edge solutions.\nResponsibilities:\nDevelop leading edge, high-performance cloud and container technologies for the Edge.\nDevelop Kubernetes operators and supporting automation, observability, security, resilience and scale concerns\nWork with the most dynamic and exciting open source software projects today - Kubernetes (K8S), Helm, OpenStack, and related projects\nWork as part of a team focused on containerization, virtualization and fault tolerance/carrier-grade development.\nContribute actively to StarlingX, an open source project under the OpenInfra Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge (https://www.starlingx.io/).\nDevelop and deliver high-quality design and code.\nDevelop automated tests, enabling faster design and test cycles.\nInvestigate and resolve issues reported during product verification and customer integration.\nParticipate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.\nDevelop solutions for configuration management across multiple linux hosts \nDevelop solutions for process monitoring and recovery of services running in linux \nDevelop solutions for configuration and state information backup and retrieval to restore systems to a previous point in time.\nDiagnose issues related to linux processes in high availability, process monitoring, system active standby failover and configuration management \nQualifications/Skills:\nBachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science or related field \n5+ years of professional software development experience including building infrastructure software for distributed systems\nExposure to Go, Kubernetes, and Kubernetes operators is strongly preferred\n Exposure to Helm, Ansible and Puppet is strongly preferred\nProgramming experience with C, C++, Python is a great asset\nExperience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.\nExperience with Linux software development \nStrong analytical and debugging skills \nExcellent written and oral communication skills.\nExceptional team player who works well in collaborative environments \nSelf-managed, fast learner with the desire and ability to master new technologies \nStrong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive \nFamiliarity with iterative and agile/scrum software development processes \nContribution to the open-source community would be an asset \nBenefits\nWorkplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.\nCompany-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.\nIncome protection through short and long-term disability coverage.\nMatching RRSP.\nVacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.\nWell-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being throughUnmind.\nLearning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.\nAPPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:\nYour privacy is of the utmost importance to us.At Wind River, westrictlyadhere toallapplicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River's Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be foundhere.\n#LI-PG\nPrivacy Notice - Active Candidates: https://www.aptiv.com/privacy-notice-active-candidates\nAptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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