Senior Manager Engineering – Cloud

Job title:

Senior Manager Engineering – Cloud

Company

Wind River

Job description

DescriptionPosition at Wind RiverSenior Manager, Engineer – Cloud PlatformLocation: Ottawa, CanadaABOUT THE OPPORTUNITYWithin the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects like Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack and fast-paced Open-Source technologies that are in high demand from our customers. Wind River Cloud has adopted these technologies into the core of our product, which is driving us to find experienced and high-performing individuals who can learn and contribute to these container solutions. In addition, the Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open Source StarlingX cloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed edge solutions, including 5G, Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial Automation, and Augmented Reality. Wind River contributes and builds upon the work within StarlingX to ensure it meets the demands of these critical applications.The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills, and ability to manage as part of a large product team. You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. You will have the opportunity to lead, manage, and grow a team of Cloud engineers responsible for the development of our Cloud Platform product offering. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.Responsibilities

• Managing a team of Cloud engineers contributing to ongoing releases of Wind River Cloud Platform including career planning, goal setting, performance assessment, coaching, performance improvement, compensation, conflict resolution, and other people management tasks.
• Develop in an open community, build products based on open-source technologies, and contribute to open-source projects such as Kubernetes, OpenStack and StarlingX.
• Sprint planning and coordination across scrum teams.
• Working with a team of other development and program managers to coordinate work and assure delivery of projects and products.
• Process development and implementation for the direct team and department.
• Contributing to budget allocation and monitoring.
• Interfacing to various other parts of the company such as Test, Engineering Operations, and Product Management

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• Development engineering management skills as demonstrated by experience in planning and leading multiple engineering projects using modern project management techniques, including Agile/Scrum; building and motivating highly performing development teams to accomplish progressively aggressive goals; instill vision and direction clearly and create atmosphere of proactive ownership in team members; and superior skills in diagnosing and solving typical development issues.
• Personal skills such as: time planning and organization; nimbleness; verbal and written communications to wide variety of audiences; effectiveness as a team member; enthusiastic leadership; personal drive, energy, resourcefulness, and perseverance; integrity; adaptability to new and uncertain environments; a desire to improve practices and processes; and enthusiastic leadership.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects and leading development in the open-source community.
• The ability to be an effective member of a team of managers including a drive to accomplish the collective goals of the team; the ability to fairly and effectively negotiate; and an attitude that puts the good of the team ahead of one’s individual needs when required.
• Experience in people management including; career planning; performance assessments; performance improvement; mentoring and helping people grow; compensation; and general care of development engineers.
• Successful track record of prioritizing and quickly responding to urgent customer needs and adjusting other engineering work to accommodate. Ability to interact with partner and customer counterparts when required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 10+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 7+ years software development management as part of a larger team with interdependent responsibilities in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure software development.
• Track record of building and delivering mission-critical, 24×7 production software systems.
• Contribution to the open-source community.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience in Cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and/or StarlingX.

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

. * Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITYWind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics.To learn more, visit Wind River at .APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE:Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. At Wind River, we strictly adhere to all applicable data privacy laws. Please review Wind River’s Applicant Privacy Notice, which can be foundWind River is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.Diversity is foundational for Wind River’s business success. We want to be a workplace of choice for all people and we value the unique perspectives offered by a diverse workforce. Wind River does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, age, ancestry, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status. This principle applies to all areas of employment: recruitment and hiring, training, performance evaluations, promotions and transfers, compensation and benefits, and social and recreational programs.Wind River desires to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all individuals. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, Wind River provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees. Requests for reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees are examined on a case-by-case basis. Please let us know if you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application, interviewing, hiring or at any other time during the employment process. You can email us at: . Please do not include personal medical information in the email.

Expected salary

Location

Ottawa, ON

Job date

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:59:24 GMT

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