Hosting Lifecycle Leader

GE Aerospace

About The Position

The Hosting Infrastructure Lifecycle Leader ensures our on-premise and cloud infrastructure remains secure, supported, standardized, and cost-effective over time. You will own the lifecycle of operating systems, hardware, images, managed services, and platform versions, reducing end-of-life risk, driving upgrade/migration programs, and establishing governance that keep our environments current with minimal disruption. This role requires a blend of architecture, program delivery, and operational leadership across data centers and public cloud (e.g., AWS, EKS, RDS). Working at GE Aerospace means you are bringing your unique perspective, innovative spirit, drive, and curiosity to a collaborative and diverse team working to advance aerospace for future generations. If you have ideas, we will listen. Join us and see your ideas take flight! Established in 2000, the John F. Welch Technology Center (JFWTC) in Bengaluru is GE Aerospace’s multidisciplinary research and engineering center. Pushing the boundaries of innovation every day, engineers and scientists at JFWTC have contributed to hundreds of aviation patents, pioneering breakthroughs in engine technologies, advanced materials, and additive manufacturing.

Requirements

For roles outside USA: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.
For roles in USA:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum years of experience4years

Nice To Haves

Skilled level expertise in running Infrastructure management processes to monitor quantity and quality systems
Understands technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction aligning with business goals.
Familiar with elements of gathering data for future architecture requirements.
Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics.
Familiar with concepts of costing hardware and software components.
Delivers tasks on-time with alignment to architectural blueprints and technical roadmaps.
Can identify and raise issues, risks and benefits.
Participates in change initiatives by implementing new directions and providing appropriate information and feedback.
Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker.
Applies values, policies, procedures and precedent to make timely, routine decisions of limited, clear choice.
Reacts open-mindedly to new perspectives or ideas.
Considers different or unusual solutions when appropriate.
Resolves day-to-day issues related to strategy implementation.
Escalates issues that impact the client and/or strategic initiatives.
Vendor influencing skills and experiences overseeing technical solutions
Ability to consult customer on alignment of outcomes and desired technical solutions at an enterprise level
Ability to Analyze, design, and develop a software solution roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state of the business.
Working knowledge of configuration choices and related cost implications; Experience with complex solution configurations.
Knowledgeable of full range of solution catalog within a business unit and able to discuss overall solution at depth.
Experience sustaining operational stability through various life cycle phases (planning, implementation, steady state, de-commissioning); Ability to provision and budget via capital and operating.
Able to lead early stage customer interactions; Guide customers as they develop confidence and comfort with approaches and integrate with their legacy tech investments.
Adept at navigating the organizational matrix; understanding people's roles, can foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources and rally teammates.
Understand how internal and/or external business model works and facilitate active customer engagement
Foresee obstacles, identify workarounds, leverage resources, rally teammates.
Demonstrated ability to work with and/or lead blended teams, including 3rd party partners and customer personnel.
Demonstrated Change Management /Acceleration capabilities
Strong interpersonal skills, including creativity and curiosity with ability to effectively communicate and influence across all organizational levels
Proven analytical and problem resolution skills
Ability to influence and build consensus with other Information Technology (IT) teams and leadership

Responsibilities

Define and maintain current-to-target roadmaps for on-prem OS/hardware refresh, cloud service versions, container platforms, and base images.
Build decision frameworks and blueprints that align business goals, risk, security, capacity, and cost.
Evaluate on-prem vs. cloud options and recommend migration/refactor paths where appropriate.
Establish and lead governance for standards, exceptions, and EOL/EOS risk across on-prem and cloud.
Define and maintain standard service catalogs: approved OS builds, hardware platforms, golden AMIs/OCI images, approved cloud services, Kubernetes base versions, and managed database engine versions.
Align with security on baseline configurations, patching cadence, CIS/STIG compliance, tagging, and identity standards.
Monitor vendor/provider notices for EOL, deprecations, and security advisories
Publish clear dashboards and reports on lifecycle posture, EOL exposure, upgrade progress, exceptions, and cost impact.
Facilitate cross-functional forums and decision-making; escalate blockers early with options and recommendations.
Maintain decision logs, governance packets, and playbooks.