Senior Engineer – Platform Support

Location: Ottawa, Canada, Office based work - 3 days required

ABOUT 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. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The 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 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.

  YOUR ROLE

• The Senior Engineer
• Systems (Infrastructure & Engineering Support) provides technical expertise and leadership for developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and development infrastructure. Senior Engineers work independently on complex infrastructure problems, improve developer productivity, and mentor junior engineers.

In your daily job you will:

Development & Implementation

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation infrastructure

• Create tools and scripts to improve developer productivity

• Support and enhance development infrastructure

• Write high-quality, maintainable code following team standards

• Debug and resolve complex infrastructure-related issues

• Optimize infrastructure performance and reliability

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers

• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions

• Contribute to architecture and design decisions

• Drive technical improvements and best practices

• Lead technical initiatives and small projects

Team Collaboration

• Collaborate effectively with team members and cross-functional partners

• Work with distributed teams across US, Romania, and India

• Share knowledge through documentation and technical discussions

• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives

• Contribute to team process improvements

Infrastructure & Engineering Support Specific

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines

• Create automation tools and scripts (Python, Shell, etc.)

• Support development infrastructure (build farms, test systems, etc.)

• Improve developer productivity tools

• Automate testing and validation processes

• Design solutions for complex infrastructure problems

• Guide technical direction for infrastructure components

• Monitor and maintain infrastructure health

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

• 5+ years of software engineering experience

• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure, automation, or DevOps

• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Shell, etc.)

• Strong background in software development lifecycle

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Shell, Bash, etc.)

• Solid understanding of CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)

• Experience with version control (Git) and code review

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

• Familiarity with Linux systems administration

• Understanding of automation and orchestration

• Knowledge of containerization (Docker, etc.)

Domain Knowledge

• CI/CD pipelines and automation

• Development infrastructure

• Build systems and automation

• System administration

• Monitoring and logging

• Scripting and tool development

• Performance optimization

Soft Skills

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers

• Technical writing and documentation skills

• Problem-solving and analytical thinking

• Self-directed and proactive

• Attention to detail and quality

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with embedded Linux development

• Knowledge of Yocto Project or similar build systems

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc.)

• Understanding of infrastructure as code

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools

• Knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes, etc.)

• Open source contributions

• Experience in Dev

Ops or SRE roles:

Key Performance Indicators Infrastructure reliability and uptime

• Automation effectiveness

• Developer productivity improvements

• Code quality and technical contributions

• Project delivery and infrastructure improvements

• Code review participation and quality

• Mentoring and knowledge sharing

• Team collaboration and communication

Benefits:

• Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work

• Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.

• Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.

• Matching RRSP.

• Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.

• Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind .

• Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.

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