Senior Applications Operations Engineer - Remote Automation

GE Aerospace; Waukesha (WI); Remote; USD 131,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Aerospace is seeking a senior Engineering Operations lead to support and maintain critical applications and data processing platforms for US and UK users. You will ensure the team has resources, track SLA delivery, and own incident/change management with cross-functional collaboration.

You will drive automation, CI/CD enhancements, and modernization efforts, including migrations from legacy tools and evaluating AWS hosting options. Strong leadership and regulatory experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux/Unix server administration and scripting.
• Experience with AWS hosting or migration of enterprise apps.
• Automation/CI-CD experience with common tools.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled ops tools and automation.
• Background in regulated aerospace/defense environments preferred.
• Leadership in Agile delivery and coaching others.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical operations authority across engineering pods for US/UK users.
• Define, track, and report operational KPIs and SLAs; communicate risks to leadership.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management; root cause analysis.
• Perform hands-on Linux and Windows server administration across environments.
• Partner with cybersecurity/compliance to meet security and regulatory requirements.
• Automate provisioning, monitoring, patching, and reporting using scripting and tools.
• Advance CI/CD capabilities and measure impact against KPIs.
• Coach and mentor engineers; set standards and runbooks; support Agile planning.

Skills

Linux administration

AWS experience

CI/CD automation

AI for operations

Agile delivery

Technical coaching

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree

High School Diploma

Tools

Rational Synergy/Change

DOORS Next

Rational DOORS Classic

GitHub

Jenkins

Artifactory

Ansible

ServiceNow

Git-based tooling

AWS (EC2/S3/IAM/VPC)

Job description

GE Aerospace is seeking a senior Engineering Operations lead to support and maintain critical applications and data processing platforms for US and UK users. You will ensure the team has resources, track SLA delivery, and own incident/change management with cross-functional collaboration.

You will drive automation, CI/CD enhancements, and modernization efforts, including migrations from legacy tools and evaluating AWS hosting options. Strong leadership and regulatory experience are essential.