Senior Staff DevOps Architect

GE Vernova • Bellevue, WA

7d • $133,600 - $200,400

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of Kubernetes on RKE2 (Rancher) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior