Cloud Solutions Architect

Description Position at Wind River

Cloud Solutions Architect

Location : Location : US - Alameda, San Diego, Detroit, Boston

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ABOUT 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. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and 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

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

Qualifications

BENEFITS

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is $ 130,000 to $ 170,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $ 140,000 to $ 185,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans : health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

Wind 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 www.windriver.com .

APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE :

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