Remote Director, Platform as a Product

AE0035 GE Military Systems; Evendale (OH); Remote; USD 152,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Aerospace is seeking a Director of Infrastructure & Platform to lead the team that builds secure, scalable environments across cloud, on‑prem, and edge in a defense context. You’ll own the platform as a product with a golden path, published roadmap, and service standards, driving reliability, security, and delivery improvements.

The role requires strategic leadership, a bias toward flow, and collaboration with Cyber Security to embed security by design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR Associate's degree with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with a minimum of 12 years of professional experience.
• Minimum 6 years of professional experience in Infrastructure & Platform Engineering or IT.
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading technical teams.
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.
• Eligibility requirement Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
• GE Aerospace will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
• Export Control Required (ITAR/EAR).

Responsibilities

• Team leadership and talent
• Lead and develop the Infrastructure & Platform team – technical program management, platform and infrastructure engineering, and infrastructure architecture – with clear role clarity, objectives, and standard work for each seat
• Own the team’s performance and development; build a culture of ownership, flow, and continuous improvement
• Identify and remove obstacles on behalf of the team, and coach problem‑solving at the point of work
• Platform operating model and governance
• Own and mandate a single golden-path delivery pipeline – CI/CD, environments, and shared services – that all product teams adopt, and govern the exception process when a team cannot
• Operate the platform as a product: a named backlog, a published roadmap, and service standards for availability, support, change management, and SLAs
• Establish how platform change is requested, prioritized, approved, and released, and make that governance visible to the teams it affects
• Partner with Cyber Security to build security best practice into the platform by default, and scope the DevSecOps capability gap as an explicit Phase 2 headcount ask
• Delivery and reliability
• Ensure secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure across cloud, on‑premises, and edge environments in a defense context
• Set the operating rhythm – daily management, WOR, and MOR – that keeps reliability and delivery managed, not merely reported
• Partner with the four product-development software teams so the platform meets their current needs and anticipates their future ones
• Cross‑organization alignment
• Represent Infrastructure & Platform in the Tech Ops leadership cadence and align the platform roadmap to the enterprise and CDAIO baseline
• Partner with the Director, Architecture & Data so platform patterns and architecture guardrails stay coupled

Skills

Infrastructure & Platform Eng

Team Leadership

Technical Program Mgmt

Cloud & DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

SRE

Security best practices

Job description

GE Aerospace is seeking a Director of Infrastructure & Platform to lead the team that builds secure, scalable environments across cloud, on‑prem, and edge in a defense context. You’ll own the platform as a product with a golden path, published roadmap, and service standards, driving reliability, security, and delivery improvements.

The role requires strategic leadership, a bias toward flow, and collaboration with Cyber Security to embed security by design.