Senior Applications Operations Engineer - Remote, AI-Driven

GE Aerospace; Shawnee (OK); Remote; USD 131,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Life insurance

Job summary

GE Aerospace seeks an experienced Engineering Operations leader to support and maintain critical applications and data processing platforms. You will drive incident/change management, automate provisioning and monitoring, and modernize legacy systems while ensuring regulatory compliance.

You will mentor engineers, define operating KPIs, and collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to meet DO-178C/DO-254 and export control standards.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Linux/Unix server administration (RHEL) with patching, tuning, and scripting.
• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC) hosting or migrating enterprise apps.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled operational tools and automation for reliability.
• Experience with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (DOORS Next, EWM, ETM) or Rational Synergy/Change.
• Experience leading platform migrations to Git-based tools (GitHub).
• Automation and CI/CD experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible).
• Experience in regulated aerospace/defense environments (DO-178C/DO-254, export control, CMMC).

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical operations authority across engineering application pods for US/UK users.
• Define, track, improve operational KPIs and SLAs; communicate risks and trends to leadership.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management; drive root cause analysis.
• Perform hands-on Linux and Windows server administration across environments.
• Partner with cybersecurity/compliance to meet security and regulatory requirements.
• Automate repetitive operational work using scripting and tools; advance CI/CD capabilities.
• Lead in using AI for operations; develop Agentic Operations framework.
• Own obsolescence roadmap and modernization, including migrations off legacy platforms.
• Present risk-balanced options to leadership weighing cost, risk, and benefits.
• Coach engineers, set standards and runbooks; participate in Agile planning.

Skills

Linux/Unix administration

AWS experience

AI in operations

CI/CD automation

Agile delivery

Leadership coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5+ years

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Ansible

Artifactory

ServiceNow

Job description

GE Aerospace seeks an experienced Engineering Operations leader to support and maintain critical applications and data processing platforms. You will drive incident/change management, automate provisioning and monitoring, and modernize legacy systems while ensuring regulatory compliance.

You will mentor engineers, define operating KPIs, and collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to meet DO-178C/DO-254 and export control standards.