Staff DevOps Engineer

Job description

3343729
Additional Cities

Van Buren Township, Alpharetta, Atlanta
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Corporate
Business Segment

Corporate Digital Technology
Function

Digital Technology
Country/Territory

United States
Additional States/Provinces

Georgia, Michigan
Postal Code

48111-5711
Role Summary/Purpose

The Sr DevOps Engineer will be responsible for collaborating with developers, engineers, and product managers to implement and operate mission-critical and highly available web sites that support GE's online presence. This candidate will be both extremely passionate and have demonstrated experience with building and supporting public cloud infrastructure on AWS, DevOps methods and tool chains, CI/CD pipelines, scripting/automation, and a strong desire to continuously improve.
Essential Responsibilities

• Develop automated solutions to predict and address potential problems before they result in a service interruption
• Oversee and adapt monitoring and alerting systems
• Collaborate with all GE business units worldwide, providing a bastion technical expertise
• Identify potential process improvements across the entire commercial marketing organization
• Define and drive architectural enhancements into system to mitigate potential failure points
• Provide impact assessment and mitigation plan for changes going into the production environment
• Investigate root cause of severe and systemic outages, identify corrective actions
• Establish performance baseline, capacity thresholds, correlate events, and define monitoring/alerting criteria
• Provide technical coaching and direction to more junior teammates
Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with a minimum 6 years of professional experience in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) OR a HS diploma/GED with a minimum 10 years of professional experience in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics

Eligibility Requirements
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job
• Must be willing to work out of an office located in Van Buren Township, Michigan or Alpharetta, Georgia
Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:
• Expert knowledge of setup, configuration and administration of various Linux operating systems and their components (e.g. RedHat, CentOS, Debian, etc.)
• Strong experience in administration of web servers and web application servers (e.g. Apache, WebSphere, nginx, Tomcat, JBoss, etc.)
• Strong experience deploying and managing infrastructure and applications on public clouds – AWS preferred (VPC, EC2, Auto-Scaling Groups, S3, RDS, ELB’s, ALB’s, CloudFront, WAF, IAM, KMS, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to create server-side and client-side scripts to automate repeatable tasks (e.g. PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, JS, Node js, Bash, PowerShell)
• Experience with configuration and administration of containerization technologies and tools and ability to troubleshoot containerized applications (e.g. Docker, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, AWS Container Services, etc.)
• Experience with code deployment processes using various DevOps and CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g. Jenkins, GIT, GitLab, CVS, Subversion, Chef, Ansible, AWS CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, Lambda, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience with development, configuration, hosting, and administration of various web-based PHP CMS platforms (e.g. Drupal, WordPress, etc.)
• Experience with configuring, customizing, and extending monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, Nagios, AppDynamics, SolarWinds, Riverbed, LogRhythm, CloudWatch/CloudTrail, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience with server, network, and application troubleshooting at all OSI layers (Routing/Switching, proxies, firewalls, WAF, server resources, application logs, load balancers, etc.)

Leadership:
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Preemptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making.
• Understands and encourages change when needed
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization
• Self-starter; communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure

Personal Attributes:
• The right person will always possess all three of these personal attributes: hungry, humble, smart
• Team player at the core – no “hero” mentality
• Passion to grow, develop, and coach your peers
• Critical thinker; able to quickly adapt to changing environments
• A hacker or tinkerer at heart
• Risk taker, not afraid to think outside the box or challenge the status quo
• Emotional Intelligence, ability to influence up and out and the ability to work independently
• Passionate about continuously learning
About Us

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers. www.ge.com
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications

GE 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).
Primary Country

United States
Primary State/Province

Michigan
Primary City

Van Buren Township