Aptiv PLC

Member of Technical Staff - DevOps

Aptiv PLC$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 6-8 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or related fields.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with Python.
  • 3+ years experience in system architecture and design.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD ecosystems such as Gerrit, Zuul, Jenkins, and GitLab CI.
  • Experience with automation and complex platform tooling, including configuration management and container registries.

Responsibilities

  • Own the virtualization environment for Wind River Cloud Platform.
  • Improve CI/CD workflows for Wind River Cloud Platform and related products.
  • Enhance build reliability, release readiness, and actionable pipeline telemetry.
  • Develop automation to streamline build, test, release, and operational workflows.
  • Utilize cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, and Ansible for platform deployments.
  • Act as a senior technical contributor to clarify ambiguous problems and drive issues to closure.
  • Contribute to the StarlingX open-source project and develop high-quality platform features.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud-native technologies.
  • Engagement in an open-source community with StarlingX.
  • Collaborative and dynamic work environment that fosters innovation.
  • Involvement in the entire software development process with agile methodologies.
  • Potential for growth in technical leadership and influence within projects.
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff - Cloud who can help strengthen the reliability, automation, build, release, and developer experience of our cloud platform products. This role is not limited to maintaining pipelines or resolving build issues. The right candidate will be expected to improve how engineering teams build, test, release, troubleshoot, and operate platform software across a complex distributed product environment.


The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills.  You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.

This person should be comfortable working across software engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release engineering, and open-source cloud-native technologies.

Responsibilities:

  • Ownership of 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 who brings structure to ambiguous problems, communicates risks clearly, and drives issues to closure.
  • Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the Open Infrastructure Foundation - a fully featured cloud infrastructure software stack for the edge ().
  • 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.
  • Act as a senior technical contributor who brings structure to ambiguous problems, communicates risks clearly, and drives issues to closure.
  • Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • From 6 to 8 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or release engineering with a Bachelor's degree or 7+ years with a Master’s degree.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with Python.
  • 3+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
  • 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.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • 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 & 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 is an asset.

About Aptiv PLC

Aptiv PLC is a global technology company that designs and manufactures vehicle components and provides electrical and electronic and active safety technology solutions to the global automotive and commercial vehicle markets. The company's products include advanced safety systems, electrical and electronic distribution systems, and software and controls. Aptiv's largest customers are automotive manufacturers, and the company has a significant presence in Europe, Asia, and North America. The company was formerly known as Delphi Automotive PLC and changed its name to Aptiv PLC in December 2017.
Learn more about Aptiv PLC
Size
155,000 employees
Market Cap
$24.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.8 billion
5 Year Trend
+4.9%
Revenue
$13 billion
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