What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Software Architect - Onboard Infrastructure Platform position at Panasonic?
Who We Are:
Ever wonder who brings the entertainment to your flights? Panasonic Avionics Corporation is #1 in the industry for delivering inflight products such as movies, games, WiFi, and now Bluetooth headphone connectivity!
How exciting would it be to be a part of the innovation that goes into creating technology that delights millions of people in an industry that’s here to stay! With our company’s history spanning over 40 years, you will have stability, career growth opportunities, and will work with the brightest minds in the industry. And we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture that will help our organization thrive! We seek diversity in many areas such as background, culture, gender, ways of thinking, skills and more.
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The Avionics Way:
The Avionics Way captures the essence of what makes our employees special, and by extension, our organization. It’s comprised of 5 core identifiers - Pioneers, Problem Solvers, Accountable, Collaborative, and Customer Focused - that together form a robust, working framework for our continued success. Beyond a philosophy, the Avionics Way is our guide to daily practices. It provides a clear, actionable model to help employees, at all levels, realize their ambitions through outsized contributions to their teams and the company. This model clearly defines expectations for performance at all levels of the organization, as well as establishes specific actions and modes of working that reinforce our philosophy on the path to achieving our goals.
Responsibilities
As a member of the Software Architecture Group, you will serve as the architect for the Infrastructure and Virtualization domains and provide architectural / design direction and guidance to the product and engineering teams that work across the complex aircraft, on-premises, and cloud ecosystems that power Panasonic Avionics Corporation (“PAC”) In-flight Entertainment and Communications (“IFEC”) platform and products. You will build end to end solution documentation and blueprints that meet business requirements, drive overall solution design, aim to advance & innovate our technologies, and move us towards a nimbler integration across best of breed vendor and custom solutions. You will lead and develop architectural Point of Views and Proof of Concepts to drive decisions and discussions.
You will partner with business leaders and other architects to influence and define strategic technology direction, target state architecture & solutions, and develop product roadmaps in partnership with corresponding IFEC product and delivery teams. This is an exciting time to come onboard and drive the evolution needed to support our trajectory to support PAC’s strategic growth agenda.
What you will be doing:
- Architect and Design.
- Develop and document end-to-end software – system architectures and strategies for IFEC products and features.
- Define and develop architecture that functionally decomposes complex business and technical problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
- Define, document and communicate clear functional and Non-Functional requirements for the architectures including key integrations, dependencies, and risks.
- Define reusable patterns and frameworks that reduce cost, complexity and overall maintenance of proposed solutions.
- Review existing designs and identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve performance, stability and reliability of existing systems.
- Serve as an expert in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
- Ensure product delivery meets the architectural and functional tenants of the product for MVP and GA releases.
- Demonstrate strong balance between technical leadership and business judgement to make right decisions and technology choices.
- Communicate the software architecture throughout the organization via presentations and architecture documents/diagrams.
- Interface with product teams on review of new features / products and provide guidance on the implications / work scope / feasibility of them.
- You will exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
- Collaborate with development / test / integration / support teams on refinement/implementation/verification/deployment of the chosen architecture.
- Participate in detailed design, test plan and go-to-market reviews to ensure alignment with the chosen architecture and NFRs are met.
- Evaluate upcoming technologies, stay current with industry best practices and adapt them into the infrastructure architecture as needed to enable the product roadmap.
- Create prototypes, proof-of-concepts and demonstrations to evaluate new architecture / technologies on the systems.
- Define key attributes needed in the onboard hardware for future systems in order to meet the needs of future digital products and collaborate with hardware and systems engineering teams to realize them.
- Provide technical leadership with engineering in the areas of software design, implementation and test.
The salary range of $133,000 - $223,000 is just one component of Panasonic’s total package. The final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and incentives.
Base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location.
Qualifications
What we are looking for:
Masters or Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related engineering degree, or equivalent experience.
10 years’ experience in architecting and implementing complex infrastructure and software platforms in both bare metal and Cloud environments.
10 years’ experience with systems architecture, design and development in Aviation, Automotive, IOT, Cloud or similar industry.
Deep understanding of Linux, virtualization platforms (Kubernetes, KVM, KubeVirt, etc.), Linux and Kubernetes storage and networking architectures and technologies with proven ability to design and implement bare-metal and cloud native solutions.
Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes and other container platforms (LXC/LXD, Podman, ECS, etc.) and related technologies.
Experience with container network technologies like Calico, Multis, Cilium, eBPF, etc. and container storage technologies like Ceph, GlusterFS, Longhorn, etc.
Extensive experience with Kubernetes ecosystem and triaging issues pertaining to infrastructure and application environments.
Experience with Kubernetes operator development using Golang, Python and/or others a plus.
Hands-on experience architecting and implementing Cloud technologies (with a focus on AWS) – compute, storage, network, security, tools & automation.
Experience with infrastructure configuration automation (Ansible, Terraform, etc.), DevSecOps / CICD (Gitlab, ArgoCD, etc.) and with Observability tools (Open Telemetry, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc.).
Solid understanding of security related tools, technologies, and best practices both on-premises and Cloud.
Experience with architecture / design / development of remote software and content distribution over the air (OTA) and monitoring.
Experience documenting functional and non-functional system and product requirements, decomposing into technical requirements and architecture documentation.
Experience with SAFe and Agile development is plus.
Ability to lead and work in fast paced agile (SAFe and SCRUM) global team setting, mentoring junior team members with minimal supervision.
What we offer:
At Panasonic Avionics Corporation we realize the most important aspects in leading our industry are the bright minds behind everything we do. We are proud to offer our employees a highly competitive, comprehensive and flexible benefits program.
- Paid time off: Exempt Salaried employees receive unlimited PTO. This means that there is no fixed number, range, or limit to the amount of Personal and Vacation Days that may be taken for exempt employees. Non-exempt hourly employees accrue 14 vacation days per year 7 sick days 3 personal days. Accrual rate increases with tenure. All employees receive 11 company paid holidays per year plus a paid company-wide shut down in the U.S. between Christmas and New Year.
- Insurance: Medical insurance offerings from Aetna and Kaiser (CA &HI). Options for Employee Only, Employee Spouse/Domestic Partner, Employee Children, or Family. Dental PPO and DMO options & Vision insurance through EyeMed or VSP.
- 401K with 50% match on up to 8% contribution, full vested from day 1.
- Other offerings include: Wellness Program, Counseling services, FSA & HSA, Life Insurance for employee, spouse and child, AD&D Insurance, Long-term and Short-term disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Dependent Care FLSA, Education Assistance, Commuter Program, Employee Purchase Program, Service Award Program.
Panasonic is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law or company policy. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. Pre-employment drug testing is required for safety sensitive positions or as may otherwise be required by contract or law. Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Avionics Corporation.
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REQ-151749Salary : $133,000 - $223,000