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The company develops cloud-native infrastructure platforms designed to support highly available, secure, and scalable edge and distributed cloud deployments.\nPosition Overview\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Infrastructure and Labs lead engineering teams responsible for the development, operation, and continuous evolution of the Wind River Cloud Platform. This role combines leadership of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, networking, test laboratories, TestOps, and platform operations.\nThe successful candidate will be responsible for delivering highly available cloud infrastructure solutions built on technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, and StarlingX while overseeing the engineering infrastructure and validation environments that support product development, customer deployments, and mission-critical production workloads.\nThis position requires a strategic leader with deep experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, operational excellence, networking, development, testing and organizational leadership.\nKey Responsibilities\nEngineering Leadership\nLead and develop high-performing engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams.\nEstablish a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.\nDrive execution across multiple simultanious product releases, ensuring 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and platform services.\nEstablish roadmaps for infrastructure modernization, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.\nDrive Infrastructure-as-Code and automation initiatives across the organization.\nTest Lab & Validation Environment Management\nOwn global engineering laboratories supporting software development, integration, validation, certification, and customer testing.\nEnsure lab environments accurately model customer deployments and production use cases.\nLead hardware lifecycle management, capacity planning, asset management, and lab expansion initiatives.\nDrive automation of provisioning, deployment, testing, and environment management.\nEstablish key operational metrics for utilization, availability, quality, and engineering productivity.\nNetworking Leadership\nOversee enterprise, cloud, and local lab networking infrastructure working with corporate and lab managers.\nDirect strategy and operations for routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, FC, etc.\nEnsure network 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StarlingX and related cloud-native projects.\nFoster collaboration with industry partners, customers, and engineering communities.\nInfluence platform direction across organizational and technical boundaries.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\n10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems.\n5+ years of engineering management experience leading geographically distributed teams.\nDemonstrated success delivering complex, highly available, multi-component platforms.\nExperience managing cloud infrastructure, networking, and operational environments at scale.\nStrong understanding of cloud-native architecture and distributed systems design.\nProven ability to build and lead high-performing technical organizations.\nPreferred Qualifications\nCloud & Platform Technologies\nKubernetes\nOpenStack\nStarlingX\nContainers and cloud-native technologies\nEdge computing platforms\nLinux-based infrastructure\nInfrastructure & DevOps\nVMware, KVM, or similar virtualization platforms\nTerraform, Ansible, or Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks\nJenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools\nPlatform observability and monitoring solutions\nSite Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices\nNetworking\nData center networking\nBGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN\nSDN and network virtualization\nNetwork security architecture\nLoad balancing and service mesh technologies\nTest Infrastructure\nLarge-scale engineering test labs\nAutomated validation environments\nPerformance and scalability testing\nHardware qualification and lifecycle management\nCustomer proof-of-concept and certification environments\nLeadership Competencies\nThe ideal candidate will demonstrate:\nStrategic thinking and technical vision.\nStrong organizational and people leadership skills.\nAbility to influence multiple engineering disciplines.\nEffective decision-making in 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support of mission-critical cloud and edge computing solutions.\nPrivacy Notice - Active Candidates: https://www.aptiv.com/privacy-notice-active-candidates\nAptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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