Senior Engineer - Technical Support

Wind River Systems Engineer Opportunity

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.

If you're a curious and collaborative engineer, someone excited about tackling hard problems and finding innovative solutions, you will love being part of our group. Wind River Systems products include AI/ML suites which assist with digital transformation, and you are expected to be able to use and support these suites. The team you will represent is pivotal to the success of Wind River as the market leader in the Global edge compute OS market and to accelerate the digital transformation of our customers with a new generation of Mission Critical AI Systems. The focus of this role is to help the customer who use Wind River Systems Products (on-prem and SaaS) to develop cutting-edge IoT and embedded system devices that will enable the next generation of technology user experiences. Our engineers are driven by a desire to protect mission-critical and safety-critical systems.

You will need to be sharp and self-driven to jump into our labs/reference environment and duplicate customer environments, systems, and devices. You will master skills in a wide range of Wind River Systems and other Cloud tools & technologies such as Hypervisor, IDEs, compilers, Dockers/Container, Kubernetes, Jenkins etc., to understand customer setups, anticipate or investigate possible root causes, and provide high-quality solutions. This position works closely with end-users, stakeholders, and developers within Wind River customer support operations to assess, troubleshoot, and solve complex multi-layered issues (hardware, software and everything in between).

Your Responsibilities

• Debug and resolve customer issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Establish a deep understanding of customer needs for your area and leverage those insights to provide outstanding solutions.
• Manage ongoing bugs/incidents, system configuration and testing for Wind River products.
• Engage in internal and customer facing meetings.
• Work with cross functional teams to improve Wind River support processes.
• Proactively contribute content to the various Knowledge Bases within Wind River
• Document Problems for Knowledge Base so that customers may solve similar problems on their own in the future.
• Be available for after-hours duties in case if there is need for 24/7/365 coverage.

Performance Measurement

• CSAT, NPS, CES SLA compliance.
• Achievement of Objective and Key Results (OKRs) as set by management.
• Review of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Your Profile:

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science, Math, Data Science, Physics, or related technical field.
• Experience/Competencies: 4-6 years' experience in development and production operations supporting a cloud-based environment required with 2-4 years of customer facing role experience preferred.
• Understanding of Cloud vs. on premise computing. Good understanding of fundamentals of cloud computing.
• Experience with Azure or Amazon AWS or similar SaaS solutions.
• Experience in C/C++ and shell/Python scripting.
• Familiarity with DevOps CI/CD, Dockers, Kubernetes and involved tools.
• Experience in virtualization/containerization technologies like KVM, docker, containerd. Experience working with Xen-based virtualization as well as using and testing on Linux systems is a plus.
• Experience in standard opensource cloud technologies like Kubernetes, openstack, helm, microservices etc.
• Experience in YAML, Gitlab, Jenkins or Tekton is a plus.
• Exceptional team player who works well in collaborative environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Self-managed, fast learner with the desire and ability to master new technologies.