Cloud Solutions Architect - NSA
Description
Cloud Solutions Architect (Remote, UK).
Wind River
In a world increasingly driven by software innovation, Wind River is pioneering the technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of our customers with a new generation of Mission Critical AI Systems in an AI-first world with the most demanding standards for safety, security, performance, and reliability. Success will be determined by our ability to innovate with velocity and sell at the solutions level.
Wind River’s impact spans critical infrastructure domains such as Industrial (automation, sustainable energy, robotics, mining), as Telecommunications including 5G, connected Healthcare and Medical devices, Aerospace, Government & Defense, Automotive (connected and autonomous systems), and Enterprise IT environments. We were recognized by VDC Research in July 2020 as #1 in Edge Compute OS Platforms, overtaking Microsoft as the overall commercial leader. Wind River regularly wins industry recognitions for excellence in IoT security, cloud, and edge computing, as well as 8 consecutive years as a “Top Work Place”. If you’re passionate about amplifying your impact on the world, in a caring, respectful culture with a growth mindset, come join us and help lead the way into the future of the intelligent edge!
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
This role supports the technical delivery of solutions to end-customers that bridge Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT), with an emphasis on cloud, edge and enterprise integrations. Your efforts will enable Wind River to implement integrated solutions using cloud platforms in real-world industrial and enterprise environments. You will position and provide support for Wind River’s portfolio including eLxr Pro Linux, Studio Operator and other Wind River Edge products as needed. Depending on customer needs, you will be involved in integration projects that include enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow and cloud platforms such as Wind River’s Cloud Platform, particularly in the context of OT/IT workflows and automation. The solutions you will support address complex challenges of deploying physically distributed clouds at scale and managing highly available and secure platforms for modern enterprise applications.
You should have experience in software, systems, or infrastructure engineering, with familiarity in cloud platform and distributed systems. Exposure to OT systems (e.g. SCADA, PLCs, industrial protocols) is a strong plus. You must be capable of understanding the end customers’ problems and whiteboarding solutions using our product offerings and services. You should also understand software or infrastructure deployment cycles and be comfortable working in both IT and OT-oriented environments. Some amount of travel will be required.
Interface & Collaboration
Report directly to the Senior Director of Sales and Field Applications Engineers. You will be an integral part of sales team and the broader community of solution architects and specialized Account Managers/Directors and strive to become the trusted technical advisor to our partners and customers by understanding their business needs and addressing those needs through Wind River’s products, services, and solutions. You will collaborate with customer-facing teams, engineering, product management, professional services, and other members of the solutions engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Support the technical implementation of solutions that integrate OT and IT systems for customers, leveraging Wind River tools and platforms.
- Serve as a key technical resource for customer projects, contributing to architectural planning, deployment guidance, and solution integration.
- Work with customer stakeholders to understand needs and assist in the development of Proofs of Concept, demonstrations, and technical presentations that showcase OT/IT integration and enterprise platform interoperability.
- Assist in customer projects that involve integration between OT systems and platforms, such as ServiceNow for workflow automation or incident management.
- Participate in requirements analyses and contribute to technical solutioning.
- 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 globally.
ABOUT YOU
Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success
- Be hands-on in supporting the development and testing of PoCs for OT/IT integrated solutions.
- Familiarity with open-source projects such as StarlingX, Kubernetes is a must.
- Knowledge of modern enterprise IT infrastructure, private/hybrid cloud platforms, Telco Core/RAN, OSS/BSS and application performance management tools is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms like ServiceNow, particularly in the integration or automation context, is a strong plus.
- Exposure to OT environments such as industrial automation, SCADA systems, PLCs, or industrial protocols is a strong plus.
- Experience explaining technical concepts to large audience, comfort, and confidence in front of customers.
- Able to work independently in partner and end customer locations/labs.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate should have 7-10 years of experience in solutions architecture, systems engineering, or OT/IT in the following areas:
- Solid understanding of OT systems and their integration with enterprise IT and Cloud platforms (data center, edge, and public/private cloud).
- Experience with system-level solution design, including workload orchestration, networking (switching, routing) and integration with enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow is preferred.
- Familiarity with virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, OpenStack, and cloud-native technologies and orchestration tools is a strong plus.
- Linux background covering deployment, image build, application, and kernel development and familiarity with various programming languages (C++, C) and scripting languages (Python, Perl) is preferred.
- Must have English language skills enabling business discussion/dialogue.
- Travel at short notice availability required up to 25%.
Your Benefits:
- Health and life insurance: Wind River provides a company-sponsored life insurance offering x3 base salary cover, from the first day of employment
- Income protection: Wind River offers company-sponsored permanent health insurance from the first day of employment, providing earnings-related income protection in the event of extended periods of illness or injury disability.
- Healthcare: Company-funded healthcare is available to all employees, including vision care and AD&D coverage
- Dental: Wind River offers comprehensive cover with any qualified dentistry practice. Cover
- Wind Gives Back: All employees are encouraged to take advantage of five paid days each year to volunteer with not-for-profit community organisations or activities in their communities.
- Birthday time off: Wind River offers all employees a day off annually to celebrate their birthday, to be taken around the time of the special day
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“Wind River is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law”
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.
Wind 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.