Senior Staff DevOps Architect

GE Vernova, Inc.; Bellevue (AL); On-site; USD 134,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition assistance

Parental leave

Disability benefits

12 paid holidays

Relocation assistance

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a visionary DevOps leader to build the foundation of our Evergreen Grid Software. You will drive DevSecOps, enable regular deployments to CREs, and help scale our global digital transformation.

Collaborate with engineering, product, support and services to industrialize environment setup, upgrades, patching, and operations, while enforcing security and deployment standards. Relocation assistance provided. US pay range listed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or STEM with 10+ years of infra automation/DevOps experience
• Hands-on Ansible for config management and automation
• Proficiency with Kubernetes
• Experience building/managing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customer to define end-to-end DevSecOps process for CI/CD and DevOps in GE Vernova Grid Software deployments
• Design, build and maintain Customer Reference Environments (CREs) for secure, scalable foundations
• Develop and manage infrastructure automation/configuration management with Ansible
• Build, manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub
• Manage artifact storage, versioning, and release promotion with Artifactory
• Work with teams to industrialize environment setup, upgrades, patching, and maintenance
• Monitor environment health, troubleshoot deployment/infrastructure issues, and drive RCA

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD

Ansible

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub

Artifactory

RKE2 / Rancher (plus)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM with 10+ years experience

Tools

RKE2

Job description

Job Description Summary

At GE Vernova, we aren't just managing infrastructure; we are accelerating the energy transition. Our Evergreen offering is the heartbeat of our digital transformation—a high-growth initiative essential to scaling our Grid Software solutions globally. We are looking for a visionary DevOps leader to build the foundation of our future. If you are passionate about industrializing complex deployments and shaping the standards that define our global ecosystem, come build the energy grid of tomorrow with us
This role leads the DevSecOps implementation of GE Vernova Grid Software products at customer sites. This is a critical, high visibility, customer-facing
role to ensure regular deployments to Customer Reference Environments, Dev, QA and Production using continuous deployment (CD) automation. The role also includes contribution towards definition of standards around deployment automation, security, ecosystem tooling to enable automation and test automation. The Evergreen offering has a high growth potential for GE Vernova and a core capability identified for scaling globally.

Job Description

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with the customer to define an end-to-end DevSecOps process to bring CI/CD & DevOps principles to deliver GE Vernova Grid Software products to the customer environments
• Design, build, and maintain Customer Reference Environments (CREs) that provide a secure, scalable, and repeatable foundation for customer deployments.
• Develop and manage infrastructure automation and configuration management using Ansible to ensure consistency, speed, and reliability across environments.
• Build, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub to enable efficient software integration, testing, and deployment.
• Manage artifact storage, versioning, and release promotion processes using Artifactory to support controlled and traceable software delivery.
• Build deep knowledge of GE Vernova Products across performance and GridOS.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes on RKE2 (Rancher) is a plus.
• Partner with software engineering, product, support, and services teams to industrialize environment setup, upgrades, patching, and ongoing maintenance activities.
• Monitor environment health, troubleshoot deployment and infrastructure issues, and drive root cause resolution to improve stability and operational excellence.
• Implement and enforce DevOps best practices for source control, automation, release management, and system reliability.
• Contribute to the creation of standards, templates, runbooks, and reusable automation assets that accelerate Evergreen adoption across customers.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance environment provisioning, operational efficiency, resiliency, and customer experience.
  Participate in readiness planning for new customer deployments and ensure environments are aligned to security, compliance, and supportability expectations

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum ten (10) years of experience in infrastructure automation and DevOps engineering.
• Hands‑on experience with Ansible for configuration management and infrastructure automation
• Proficiency with container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Demonstrated experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub

Business Acumen

• Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision. Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition. Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g., Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices).
• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Recommends a well‑researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution. Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI). Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance. Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses. Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.

Leadership

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre‑emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome. Uses experts or other third parties to influence.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.
• Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.
• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

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GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $133,600.00 and $200,400.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

• Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage;
• access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource;
• and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
• Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.
• Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.