Senior Applications Operations Engineer — Remote

GE Aerospace; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 131,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits (medical, dental,/

401(k) with company match

Tuition assistance

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off for vacation/illness

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

GE Aerospace seeks a senior engineering operations leader to support and maintain critical applications and data processing platforms. You will govern incident, change, and provisioning processes while driving automation, modernization, and AI-enabled operations across engineering pods for US/UK users.

You will mentor engineers, define playbooks, and contribute to Agile planning, ensuring compliance with security and export controls. Strong Linux, AWS, and CI/CD experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 5+ years of professional experience; or 8+ years with an Associate's degree; or 10+ years with a high school diploma.
• 5+ years' professional experience in Application Operations or systems administration for enterprise or engineering apps.
• 3+ years' hands-on Linux server administration.
• Military experience counts as professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical operations authority across engineering application pods for US/UK users.
• Define, track and improve operational KPIs and SLAs; communicate status to leadership.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management; resolve high-severity escalations.
• Perform hands-on Linux/Windows server administration across dev/test/prod.
• Partner with cybersecurity/compliance to meet security/export controls (CMMC/NIST).
• Automate repetitive ops work using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Advance CI/CD capabilities (Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub) and measure impact on KPIs.
• Lead the team in using AI for operations.
• Own obsolescence roadmap; manage migrations to modern tools; assess AWS hosting options.
• Coach engineers; set standards and runbooks; participate in Agile planning.

Skills

Linux server administration

AWS

AI-enabled operations

DOORS Next / Rational Synergy

GitHub

CI/CD tools

Scripting: Python/Bash/PowerShell

ITSM tools

Aerospace/defense experience

Incident/Problem/Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree

High School Diploma

Tools

Jenkins

Artifactory

Ansible

GitHub

Rational Synergy

DOORS Next

Job description

GE Aerospace seeks a senior engineering operations leader to support and maintain critical applications and data processing platforms. You will govern incident, change, and provisioning processes while driving automation, modernization, and AI-enabled operations across engineering pods for US/UK users.

You will mentor engineers, define playbooks, and contribute to Agile planning, ensuring compliance with security and export controls. Strong Linux, AWS, and CI/CD experience are essential.