Wind River · 8 hours ago
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect
Walnut Creek, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expWind River is pioneering technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of customers with Mission Critical AI Systems. The Senior Specialist Solutions Architect will manage technical requirements for major networking and telecom operators, delivering high-performance, production-grade Kubernetes-based solutions for managing edge cloud infrastructure.
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Responsibilities
Manage all technical needs of assigned Telecom Operator account utilizing all available resources
Serve as a single technical point of contact, and become the customer’s trusted advisor and the Wind River solutions expert
Listen to customers’ needs, then Architect, Develop, and deliver Proof of Concepts, Demos, and Presentations
Understand the customer use cases and help develop part of the POC or Demo
Exhibit leadership skills during customer requirements analysis and creating technical solutions as well as identifying potential business opportunities
Understanding and contributing to relevant open-source standards and community projects is a must. Participation in open-source projects will be based on business needs
Provide consistent market feedback to Wind River
Remove technical barriers for Wind River solutions
Increase Wind River's market share with each customer
Qualification
Required
12+ years of software development or solutions architecting experience
Working/functional knowledge of network stacks, switching, routing, etc
Strong knowledge of wireless/cellular telecom, and 5G edge deployments
Experience in network system-level solution design
Expertise in virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, orchestration, OpenStack, and cloud-native technologies
Exposure to SDN concepts, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and ETSI-MANO
Linux background covering deployment, image build, application, and kernel development
Adept at various programming languages: scripting languages like Python, Perl, etc. C++/C are better to have
Must have English language skills, enabling business discussion/dialogue
Travel at short notice availability required up to 25%
Preferred
Experience in open-source projects such as StarlingX, Kubernetes, O-RAN SC, Nephio, etc… is a benefit
Benefits
Birthday and Volunteer Time off
Competitive Benefits Package
Life and Disease Insurance
Annual Medical Check-up
Selective Working Hour
Employee Assistance Program
Company
Wind River
Software for the Intelligent Edge
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-01-11Acquired
2020-05-20Private Equity
Leadership Team
Paul Miller
Chief Technology Officer
Christina Ungaro, CFA
VP, Head of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships
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