Staff DevOps Engineer

Job Description Summary

Staff DevOps Engineer will be responsible for providing build and release strategy for highly complex as well as parallel and concurrent releases for Software Solutions. Works independently and is seen as a Technical Leader. The role demonstrates deep understanding of concurrent software development, its effect on build management and releasing the builds across versions and environments.

Over 40 products are being developed by the Grid engineering team. This role, as part of the Solution Test & Cert's SIRE team, will help combine relevant products into solution sets which will be tested for integration with each other. To be able to provide composability of these products into solution sets, standardized deployment approach is applied.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Define DevOps standards for individual product teams to follow

• Ensure the standards are adhered to, for the deployment of products into the SIRE environments and are composable into Customer Reference Environment solution sets

• Follow best-in-class DevOps capabilities to ensure speed and quality of the composed solutions

• Own builds, releases and continuous integration process for large and complex releases of a product and at times expands the scope across multiple concurrent releases.
• Own, manage and improve release process. Focuses on scale and efficiency. Deploys the right builds across environments.
• Manage key deliverables and mentors junior team members.
• Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.
• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables.
• Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams.
• Determine best practices and principals and promotes them across the team.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge in developing and executing automated builds and scripts.
• Learn new build and releases techniques and methodologies and trains the team in the same.
• Work with developers and stakeholders to deliver quality software through the build and deployment system.
• Partner with and provides direction to fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Use industry best practices to improve Build, Release and Continuous integration processes.

Education Qualification

For roles outside USA:

Bachelor's Degree in with advanced experience.

For roles in USA:Bachelor's Degree in with minimum years of experience6years

Desired CharacteristicsTechnical Expertise:

• Contributes in driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality
• Expert in developing code for other developers to learn from

Business Acumen:
• Has some exposure to the utility software industry and optionally brings knowledge of GE Vernova's Grid Software in at least one key product

• Has basic understanding of the electrical grid domain
• Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

Leadership:

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work.
• Applies values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions in
ambiguity and with uncertain consequences.

Note

Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes