Senior Applications Ops Lead (Remote, AI-Driven)

GE Aerospace; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 131,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Aerospace is seeking an experienced Engineering Operations Leader to support critical applications and data platforms. You will drive incident, change, and automation work across Linux/Windows environments, while coordinating with cybersecurity and compliance teams to satisfy DO-178/DO-254 and export controls.

The role emphasizes hands-on administration, CI/CD optimization, and leadership of a distributed team, including modernization and migration initiatives to AWS and Git-based workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 5+ years in Application Operations or systems administration.
• Hands-on Linux server administration experience.
• Experience with enterprise/app operations, cybersecurity/compliance collaboration.
• Military experience considered equivalent to professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior operations authority across engineering pods for US/UK users.
• Define and improve operational KPIs and SLAs; communicate risks to leadership.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management; guide high-severity escalations.
• Perform hands-on Linux/Windows server administration across environments.
• Partner with cybersecurity/compliance to meet regulatory requirements (CMMC/NIST).
• Automate provisioning, monitoring, patching, licensing with Python/Bash/PowerShell/Jenkins/Ansible.
• Advance CI/CD capabilities; measure impact against KPIs (Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub).
• Lead AI for operations; develop Agentic Operations framework.
• Own obsolescence roadmap; manage migrations to modern tools and AWS hosting.
• Present risk-based options to leadership; coach and mentor engineers.
• Participate in Agile planning; support escalation coverage.

Skills

Linux admin

AWS experience

AI in operations

Agile delivery

Scripting (Python/Bash)

CI/CD familiarity

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree + 8y exp

High School Diploma + 10y exp

Tools

DOORS Next

Rational Synergy/Change

GitHub

Jenkins

Artifactory

Ansible

ServiceNow

AWS (EC2/S3/IAM/VPC)

Job description

GE Aerospace is seeking an experienced Engineering Operations Leader to support critical applications and data platforms. You will drive incident, change, and automation work across Linux/Windows environments, while coordinating with cybersecurity and compliance teams to satisfy DO-178/DO-254 and export controls.

The role emphasizes hands-on administration, CI/CD optimization, and leadership of a distributed team, including modernization and migration initiatives to AWS and Git-based workflows.