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Overview

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 an Operational (Ground) Platform Architect at Panasonic Avionics, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including software architects, application architects, software engineers, DevOps specialists, and system administrators, to architect, deploy, and optimize cloud infrastructure to support the company's business objectives.

What you will be doing:

+ Fleet Management, Operational workflows, Application Performance Management, Observability, GitOps and DevOps Models using Kubernetes, Management of large number of clusters and cloud native application models.

+ Design and develop cloud infrastructure best practices solutions that align with industry best practices and ensure consistent adoption across the enterprise.

+ Establish cloud governance, guidelines, processes, and tools to ensure successful deployment and monitoring of cloud solutions.

+ Define cloud architecture standards, frameworks, and guidelines for the organization to enable faster migration of applications from on-premises to the cloud.

+ Evaluate existing cloud infrastructure and recommend improvements to enhance availability, resiliency, observability, supportability, recoverability, performance, scalability, and reliability.

+ Build cloud reference architecture, select, and deploy tools for managing cloud operations expenses to optimize costs with performance

+ Design and implement security best practices to protect data and applications in the cloud and overall cloud infrastructure working closely with enterprise security teams.

+ Communicate and govern cloud practices working closely with Product, Domain, Application and Solution Architects and development leads.

+ Document infrastructure designs, patterns, reference architectures, configurations, and processes.

+ Collaborate with enterprise stakeholders to understand system requirements, performance needs, and security considerations.

+ Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure, security, and cloud operations working closely with operations and support teams.

+ Implement and configure cloud services, including virtual networks, private links / VPN, storage, compute instances, load balancers, and databases.

+ Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or similar.

+ Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth migration, integration and deployment of applications in the cloud environment.

+ Stay updated with the latest cloud technologies, trends, and best practices, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement of cloud deployments.

Technical Advisor

+ Act as a resident Cloud Expert and coach for the enterprise to educate leaders and team members on concepts and value of Cloud Technologies.

+ Collaborate with Automation and DevOps teams to build tools that support both operations and product use cases.

+ Evaluate and advise on technical aspects of open work requests in the product backlog with the project lead.

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.

+ Experience in architecting large scale fleet operations for Kubernetes based hosting platforms preferably bare metal deployments using K8s / K3s, open stack or cloud.

+ Architecture experience specializing in fleet management and GitOps orchestrates and manages multiple Kubernetes clusters as a single entity, using GitOps principles to automate deployments, ensure consistency, and streamline operations.

+ Experience managing Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, deploying applications across multiple clusters, enforcing security policies, and providing centralized monitoring and governance.

+ Experience Develop and implement GitOps workflows for automating deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and lifecycle management across the fleet.

+ Experience utilizing tools like ArgoCD, Flux, or other GitOps-compatible platforms to manage deployments and configurations.

+ Experience setting up centralized monitoring and logging systems to provide visibility into cluster health and performance.

+ Experience using monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Cloudwatch or similar to implement fleet health monitoring.

+ Experience architecting operational systems for managing platforms that enable developers and operators to use the platform effectively and while delivering rich UX.

+ Experience with cloud platforms and services like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

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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