Member of Technical Staff - DevOps

Job summary

Aptiv is seeking a Member of Technical Staff - Cloud to enhance the reliability, automation, build, release, and developer experience of their cloud platform products. This role involves improving how engineering teams build, test, release, troubleshoot, and operate platform software in a complex distributed product environment. The ideal candidate will possess proven software engineering skills and be comfortable working across various cloud-native technologies and development methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6 to 8 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or release engineering with a Bachelor's degree.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or release engineering with a Master’s degree.
• 5+ years of programming experience with Python.
• 3+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and current systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD ecosystems such as Gerrit, Zuul, Jenkins, and GitLab CI, including build reliability, pipeline optimization, release readiness, and actionable reporting.
• Experience with automation and complex platform tooling, including configuration management, deployment automation, artifact management, container registries, and image build pipelines.
• Solid experience with StarlingX, OpenStack, Kubernetes, or edge/cloud infrastructure platforms supporting distributed, carrier-grade, or mission-critical systems.
• Strong experience supporting source control and CI/CD modernization or migration efforts, pipeline conversion, runner strategy, repository governance, branching models, access controls, and developer enablement.
• Experience improving and scaling observability and operational reliability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, engineering metrics, troubleshooting workflows, and production-readiness practices.
• Experience working in open-source, Agile, and globally distributed engineering environments, with strong ownership, collaboration, and ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations.
• Exposure to Kiro, Amazon Q, or similar agentic/spec-driven development tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the virtualization environment for the Wind River Cloud Platform product.
• Own and improve CI/CD workflows supporting Wind River Cloud Platform, Conductor, and related products.
• Improve build reliability, release readiness, build reporting, failure analysis, and actionable pipeline telemetry.
• Develop automation to reduce manual effort across build, test, release, deployment, troubleshooting, and operational workflows.
• Work with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Ansible, OpenStack, and StarlingX to support distributed edge and carrier-grade platform deployments.
• Act as a senior technical contributor, bringing structure to ambiguous problems, communicating risks clearly, and driving issues to closure.
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the Open Infrastructure Foundation.
• Develop and deliver platform features with high-quality design and code.
• Build tooling that improves developer productivity, reduces SDLC friction, and makes engineering workflows more repeatable.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using Agile development.

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