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Senior Linux Solutions Architect

Karnataka, India (On-site)

Senior Linux Solutions Architect

3 Months ago • 6 Years + • DevOps • Undisclosed

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Job Description

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Position at Wind River

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 — and in recent 5G milestones — including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and in 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.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

You will work closely with account managers in India region and strive to become the trusted technical advisor to our customers by understanding their business needs and addressing those needs through Wind River’s products and services.

You must have experience in Linux and Embedded software engineering. You should be capable of understanding customers’ problems and be able to effectively communicate solutions using our product offerings and services.

You should also know and have experience with software project development cycles and have been exposed to project management.

Interface & Collaboration

Working with the leading provider of integrated embedded software solutions, you will work with some of the most talented engineers to draft technical solutions to challenging problems.

As our customers look to gain a competitive advantage in this digital first world, they are looking for companies like Wind River to partner with in their journey. Wind River is answering this call through our delivery of the world’s first Cloud Native Environment that enables developers of intelligent edge devices to transform and optimize their device life cycle from Development to Deployment, to Operations, and Servicing.

Your opportunity is to join as a customer facing subject matter expert of a highly talented and motivated, customer-facing field engineering team. You will be responsible for understanding our customers' business and technical needs and working with them in the capacity of a technical evangelist and trusted advisor in crafting the next generation of Intelligent systems using WR technology and Solutions

Responsibilities

As an experienced Linux Field Application Engineer/ Linux Solution Architect in a customer-facing role, you will be guiding your customer through their journey by understanding the customer requirement around Linux choices and able to architect the Linux solution leveraging the Wind River Linux portfolio.
Engage with customers in a consultative and business-led approach, understanding their business outcome and requirements, able to build the solution architecture leveraging WR Linux and Cloud portfolio and help them achieve their business objectives.
Guide and conduct pre-sales pilots, demonstrations, workshops, proofs-of-concepts, evaluations and benchmarks.
Ensure that revenue quota, deployment, and service objectives are met while maintaining a high level of satisfaction among existing and prospective customers.
Establish technical relationships with customer associates to prospect new opportunities.

ABOUT YOU

Core Technical and Personal Competencies & Demonstrated Success

Experience in customer facing technical pre-sales/Solution Architecting roles with strong interpersonal skills required for technical presentations/demonstrations.
Knowledge of Debian based Linux solutions including deploying and running solutions in the cloud and private, public and/or hybrid clouds.
Solid Linux administration skills with SUSE Linux system administrator, deployment or equivalents; certifications are a plus
Hands-on Experience with Linux kernel, UEFI/BIOS, U-Boot/grub, PCI, USB, networking, storage, graphics drivers, porting application packages, able to modify kernel, build systems, open-source package management.
Hands-on experience with Linux distributions like Yocto Project, RHEL, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE.
Familiarity with Programming & Scripting languages such as Python, C, C++, Rust, Go, Shell scripting etc.
Good understanding of security aspects of Linux (App Armor, SELinux, TPM, Secure boot, Mitigation of Vulnerabilities etc.)
Experience with Enterprise Cloud Native technologies including Kubernetes, containers, microservices, etc., and a good understanding of AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure is strongly preferred.
Experience with DevSecOps development methodologies including an understanding of tools such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker etc.; certifications with such are a plus.
Contributions to open-source projects will be a plus
Experience in working with cross-functional teams including Sales, Product Engineering, Services, Distributors, Partners etc.

Qualifications

6+ Years of work experience in Linux software development, architecture porting, application porting, able to extend the Linux capabilities are must.
Be comfortable in presenting to Senior technical audiences, whiteboarding the solution, articulating the value proposition through demo/POC/evaluation.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to think out of box and create solutions for customer
A willingness and ability to work in a cross-cultural environment
Ability to manage multiple tasks

India Benefits

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.
Medical insurance: Group Medical Insurance coverage.
Additional shared cost medical benefit in the form of reimbursements.
Employee Assistance Program.
Vacation and Time off: Employees are eligible for various types of paid time off.
Additional Time off’s – Birthday, Volunteer Time off, Wedding.
Wellness Benefits through  Unmind
Carrot (Family -forming support)

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