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Panasonic Avionics Corporation · 7 hours ago

Sr. Software Architect - Virtualization

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$133K/yr - $223K/yr

10+ years exp

Panasonic Avionics Corporation is #1 in the industry for delivering inflight products such as movies, games, WiFi, and now Bluetooth headphone connectivity! The role involves serving as the architect for the Infrastructure and Virtualization domains, providing architectural direction, developing solution documentation, and collaborating with business leaders to define strategic technology direction.

Consumer ElectronicsInformation TechnologyManufacturingTelecommunications

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Waldo Sauceda

Responsibilities

Architect and Design

Develop and document end-to-end software - system architectures and strategies for IFEC products and features

Define and develop architecture that functionally decomposes complex business and technical problems into simple, straight-forward solutions

Define, document and communicate clear functional and Non-Functional requirements for the architectures including key integrations, dependencies, and risks

Define reusable patterns and frameworks that reduce cost, complexity and overall maintenance of proposed solutions

Review existing designs and identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve performance, stability and reliability of existing systems

Serve as an expert in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices

Ensure product delivery meets the architectural and functional tenants of the product for MVP and GA releases

Demonstrate strong balance between technical leadership and business judgement to make right decisions and technology choices

Communicate the software architecture throughout the organization via presentations and architecture documents/diagrams

Interface with product teams on review of new features / products and provide guidance on the implications / work scope / feasibility of them

You will exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience

Collaborate with development / test / integration / support teams on refinement/implementation/verification/deployment of the chosen architecture

Participate in detailed design, test plan and go-to-market reviews to ensure alignment with the chosen architecture and NFRs are met

Evaluate upcoming technologies, stay current with industry best practices and adapt them into the infrastructure architecture as needed to enable the product roadmap

Create prototypes, proof-of-concepts and demonstrations to evaluate new architecture / technologies on the systems

Define key attributes needed in the onboard hardware for future systems in order to meet the needs of future digital products and collaborate with hardware and systems engineering teams to realize them

Provide technical leadership with engineering in the areas of software design, implementation and test

Qualification

Systems architectureKubernetesCloud environmentsDistributed systemsJavaC++GoLangVirtualization technologiesLinuxDevOpsAgile developmentTechnical leadershipCommunication skillsProblem-solving

Required

Masters or Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related engineering degree, or equivalent experience

10+ years' experience in architecting and implementing complex infrastructure and software platforms in both bare metal and Cloud environments

10+ years' experience with systems architecture, design and development in Aviation, Automotive, IOT, Cloud or similar industry

10+ years of experience architecting distributed systems using Java, C++ or GoLang

Experience implementing virtualization technologies in embedded systems using LXC, QNX, Docker, Kubernetes or similar

Deep technical understanding of Linux operating system and related technologies

Deep technical understanding of Linux networking and storage

Deep technical understanding of Kubernetes ecosystem (APIs, Configuration, Operations, Best Practices, etc.)

Deep technical understanding of Linux and Kubernetes storage and networking architectures and technologies with proven ability to design and implement bare metal solutions

Extensive hands-on experience with bare-metal and Cloud Kubernetes and other container platforms and related technologies - airside bare metal Kubernetes design and implementation is the key focus for the role (LXC/LXD, Podman, Kubernetes distributions such as K3s, etc.)

Hands-on experience with container network (CNI) technologies: Calico, Cilium, Multus, eBPF, etc

Hands-on experience with container storage (CSI) technologies like Ceph, GlusterFS, Longhorn, etc

Hands-on experience with DevOps / CI-CD in Kubernetes environments - Gitlab, Helm, ArgoCD, Prometheus, etc

Extensive experience with Kubernetes and triaging issues pertaining to infrastructure and application environments

Experience with large scale Kubernetes cluster management technologies such as Rancher, Portainer, Rafay, etc

Experience with Kubernetes operator development for custom operational needs

Excellent understanding of different architectural patterns (such as service based, event based, micro services, distributed systems including pros/cons of each and when to apply them

Experience with Architecting Solutions using AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Computing and IoT based systems

Experience with architecture / design / development of complex Linux based distributed systems

Experience and In-depth knowledge of systems design, architecture and implementing large scale transactional and business systems

Experience with architecture / design / development of software and content distribution over the air (OTA)

Experience with architecture / design / development of complex distributed web and mobile products using open source and cloud technologies such as application servers, web servers, API Management, databases, CDNs, Caching, service mesh, containers, and orchestration platforms

Experience and good understanding of networking protocols, security protocols, distributed systems, high availability strategies, and analytics

Experience Architecting using Object-Oriented concepts and design patterns

Experience with end - end life cycle of complex distributed systems from requirements to production is a big plus

Experience documenting architectures and familiar with related diagraming models (such as C4 model, UML, sequence diagrams)

Preferred

Experience in Agile development process such as Scrum or SAFe is preferred

Benefits

Paid time off: Exempt Salaried employees receive unlimited PTO.

Medical insurance offerings from Aetna and Kaiser (CA &HI).

Dental PPO and DMO options & Vision insurance through EyeMed or VSP.

401K with 50% match on up to 8% contribution, full vested from day 1.

Wellness Program, Counseling services, FSA & HSA, Life Insurance for employee, spouse and child, AD&D Insurance, Long-term and Short-term disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Dependent Care FLSA, Education Assistance, Commuter Program, Employee Purchase Program, Service Award Program.

Company

Panasonic Avionics Corporation

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For 40 years, Panasonic Avionics has strengthened the connection between the world’s airlines and their passengers.

Founded in 1979

Lake Forest, California, USA

5001-10000 employees

http://www.panasonic.aero

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