Desired Skills and Experience

  • Build a world class DevOps team to enable the continuous delivery of complex software platforms and research projects of varying size and duration
  • Build Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment software tools that will support, enhance and grow development team capabilities
  • Demonstrate very strong technical leadership and people management skills including solid communication and analytical skills with thorough understanding of product development and successful problem definition, decomposition, estimation and resolution
  • Influence decision making through active partnership with cross-functional teams
  • Coach, mentor and lead a diverse group of lean/agile software and build/release engineers
  • Work with Project Managers across the businesses to understand needs & vision; quickly translate that vision into demonstrable prototypes
  • Work directly with internal customers to understand business and technical needs
  • Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
  • Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities
  • Drive world-class quality in the production deployments to ensure minimal downtime
  • Plan and manage budgets related to scope of team
  • Communicate effectively both within immediate team and GE leadership.  Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of  business direction, strategy and results
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
  • Significant experience with: Linux/ Unix Operating systems & one or more scripting languages (e.g. bash, perl, python);
  • Experience working build automation tools including GitHub and Electric Flow, using Maven and ANT.
  • Experience with Artifactory or other storage tool
  • Experience deploying and managing physical and Virtual infrastructure. 
  • Proven track record of deployment and delivery to production using CI/CD
  • Applied experience with modern application technologies & design patterns including Cloud infrastructure, distributed computing, horizontal scaling, & database technologies
  • Embraces technology trends that drive intelligent automation
  • Proven success working with & optimizing large scale production application deployments.
  • Able to verbalize what is behind decisions & downstream implications.
  • Continuously reflecting on success & failures to improve performance & decision-making.
  • Understands when change is needed.
  • Participates in technical strategy planning
  • Uses critical thinking skills & disciplined approaches to help leaders & leadership teams resolve issues & define solutions.
  • Evangelizes & contributes to the GE standards for critical thinking best practices & methodologies across the enterprise.
  • Defines new critical thinking methods. Engages with external thought-leaders & communities on analytical & critical thinking methodologies
  • Excellent communication skills & the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence & clarity
  • Evangelizes the notion that anything worth doing takes repeated effort & failure.
  • Drives the organization toward a continued excitement of attaining the vision & goal in the face of resistance