About this Senior Engineer (SDET) Cloud role at Aptiv
Senior Engineer (SDET) Cloud
Location: Kanata, ON
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. Our software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world—from NASA’s Artemis I and the James Webb Space Telescope to the world’s largest Open RAN networks.
We’ve earned global recognition for our technology innovation and workplace culture, including 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 built on growth mindset, customer focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software-defined world.
YOUR ROLE
Within the Wind River Cloud team, this role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of the Wind River Conductor platform, a key orchestration engine in the Wind River Cloud Platform (WRCP). The position blends software development and advanced test automation to validate large-scale distributed systems built on Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native technologies.
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE
In your daily work, you will:
Develop and test software for a complete cloud infrastructure software stack
Design and build scalable test automation for Wind River Conductor Design and implement high-quality code based on Kubernetes, containerized applications and distributed cloud systems
Develop end-to-end, integration, and system-level tests for distributed cloud systems
Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) and automation-first practices
Validate Kubernetes-based deployments across distributed environments
Own regression testing strategy, prioritization, and execution
Investigate and debug issues during product verification and customer integration
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and test infrastructure
Work with open-source technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Helm, Ansible, and Docker
Support platform upgrades, automation, and lifecycle validation
Contribute and collaborate across development, QA/PV, and platform engineering teams
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field
- 5–7+ years of software engineering or SDET experience
- Strong Python programming skills
- Experience with Linux and shell scripting
- Experience testing and deploying software with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm
- Experience working in Agile/SCRUM teams
- Experience building or testing distributed systems
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Experience working with globally distributed teams
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Cloudify or Wind River Cloud Platform
Understanding of OpenStack architecture (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone)
Experience with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, YAML, and TOSCA
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks
Background in high-availability or carrier-grade systems
Contributions to open-source projects
Experience with performance, scale, or chaos testing
What's the impact of the role
Ensure production-grade quality and reliability of the Conductor platform
Drive automation-first validation strategy across Wind River Cloud
Improve release quality and reduce regressions across distributed cloud deployments
Growth Opportunities
Work closely with experienced cloud architects, platform engineers, and Kubernetes experts
Gain hands-on experience building and validating production-grade cloud-native infrastructure platforms
Grow into technical ownership of automation frameworks, quality strategy, and platform features over time
Develop technical leadership within a fast-paced cloud software organization
BENEFITS - Canada
Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid Work.
Company-sponsored health, dental, and life insurance.
Income protection through short and long-term disability coverage.
Matching RRSP.
Vacation and various time off policies to encourage work-life balance.
Well-being programs: Employee assistance program, mental well-being through Unmind.
Learning benefits: LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars.
Compensation
This role is compensation range is between $90,000 to $120,000 CAD 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.
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