About the Team 

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects including 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 that can learn and contribute to these full software stack solutions to fulfill the strict requirements of edge computing use cases from security to high availability.  The team delivers in the areas of configuration management, fault management and host management.  In addition, 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, primarily 5G.   

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills.  You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment developing applications and tooling to be fault tolerant, available and scalable for real time Kubernetes applications.  You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.   

Responsibilities:

• Propose and implement best practices in Linux security, including PKI solutions, X.509 certificate management, mandatory access control (MAC, AppArmor)
• Implement secure Kubernetes clusters using TLS and API authentication & authorization
• Research, propose and implement best practices for container security and isolation.
• Integrate multiple authentication backends with the Kubernetes cluster to meet varying customer needs, such as LDAP(S) and Windows Active Directory
• Implement secure inter-node communications to protect highly critical distributed systems.
• Work with the most dynamic and exciting open-source software projects today – Kubernetes (K8s), cert-manager, vault, Kata Containers, Docker, Helm, Openstack-keystone, Ansible, etc.
• Work as part of a team building the platform of choice for highly distributed Edge solutions, including 5G, Industrial Automation and Augmented Reality.
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the OpenStack Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge (https://www.starlingx.io/).
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.

Qualifications/Skills:

• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science or related field
• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Programming experience with Python
• Experience with Linux security – including PKI and certificate management solutions
• Experience with Kubernetes security and cloud-based technologies
• Knowledge of common security practices for servers
• Experience with IPSec and network traffic encryption is an asset
• Experience with Linux software development
• Exposure to Helm, Ansible and Puppet
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Exceptional team player who works well in collaborative environments
• Self-managed, fast learner with the desire and ability to master new technologies
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Familiarity with iterative and agile/scrum software development processes
• Exposure to Go, C/C++ would be an asset
• Contribution to the open-source community would be an asset

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