Cloud Platform Senior Manager
Aptiv
CAN Kanata (2), ON - WR
Full-Time
$160,000
RemoteManager
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 “TopWorkplace” 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 Team
The Wind River Cloud team builds a distributed edge platform using Kubernetes, OpenStack, and StarlingX. We deliverhighly available, fault-tolerant infrastructuredesigned to operate at scale in demanding environments such as 5G and industrial edge deployments.
Our scope spans the full platform, includingstorage, networking, platform services, configuration, and lifecycle management. As a key contributor to the StarlingX open-source project, we help shape cloud-native infrastructure for the edge.
We are looking for strong engineers and systems thinkers who can work across domains, adapt to changing priorities, anddelivercomplex distributed systems. Success requires the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance priorities, and collaborate effectively across teams and in the open-source community.
We value ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement,leveragingmodern engineering practices—including automation, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tooling—to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Job Summary:
As a Senior Engineering Manager within the StarlingX organization, you will lead a team of engineers developing and delivering cloud infrastructure solutions for the distributed edge. StarlingX integrates Kubernetes, OpenStack, and distributed systems technologies into a highly available platform optimized for edge environments.
You will be responsible for driving execution, developing people, and shaping technical direction in close partnership with your team and peer leaders. This role requires balancing delivery, architectural alignment, and open-source engagement.
A key expectation of this roleisorganizational flexibility—managers operate at the platform level and are expected over time tolead different functional areas (e.g., storage, networking, platform services, CI/CD)based on business priorities. As such, success requires broad systems thinking rather than deep specialization in a single domain.
You will work in a highly collaborative, open-source-oriented environment with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team delivering capabilities for the StarlingX platform.
Own team execution, including planning, prioritization, and delivery across releases.
Drive career development, performance management, and a strong culture of accountability and ownership.
Collaborate with peer leaders to delivercross-domain solutionsacross the platform.
Contribute totechnical direction and architectural alignmentfor scalable, highly available systems.
Manage trade-offs across features, technical debt, and customer priorities.
Lead response to customer issues, ensuring strong ownership and resolution.
Enable effectiveopen-source engagementand contribution practices.
Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, including CI/CD and automation.
Champion adoption ofAI-assisted engineering practicesto improve productivity, quality, and operational efficiency.
Operate flexibly across domains, with the ability toleaddifferent areas of the platform over time.
Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success
Provenability to lead and scalehigh-performing engineering teamsdelivering complex distributed systems.
Strong leadership inAgile/Scrum environments, with experience managing cross-team dependencies.
Demonstrated ability tonavigate ambiguity and shift domains, quickly building sufficient technical context to lead effectively.
Ability toinfluence technical directionwithout direct authority across multiple teams.
Strong problem-solving skills indistributed systems and production environments.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability toengage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience fostering a culture ofownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Strong collaboration mindset with the ability toprioritize organizational goals over local optimization.
Experience working in or leadingopen-source development environments.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s / master's degree in computer science or related field.
10+ years ofexperience in software development, with a focus on infrastructure or distributed systems.
7+ years of experience in engineering management in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Experience deliveringcomplex, multi-componentsystemswith high availability requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience withcloud and infrastructure technologiessuch as Kubernetes, OpenStack, and/or StarlingX.
Familiarity withedge computing environmentsand constraints (latency, bandwidth, remote operations).
Experience in one or more infrastructure domains (e.g., storage, networking, platform services), with the ability togeneralize across domains.
Experience contributing to or leading teams inopen-source ecosystems.
Track recordof deliveringapplicationsfor usage in24x7 production systemswith strong reliability characteristics.
Experience integrating or leveragingAI-assisted development toolsto improve engineering productivity.
Strong understanding of CI/CD systems, automation, and modern DevOps practices.
This role is compensation range is between $160,000 to $185,000 CAD annual plus annual incentive plan bonus. Compensation is 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, vacation time, eligibility to enroll in RRSP, and paid holidays.
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