Primary Responsibilities
Day 0: Provision & Infrastructure Hardening
Kubernetes Cluster Orchestration: Help design and deploy hardened EKS clusters across multiple AWS regions, ensuring consistent security baselines.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Build and maintain reusable Terraform and Ansible modules for automated provisioning of cloud infrastructure services including networking services, compute, storage, queue and cache, etc.
Security Architecture: Implement "Policy as Code" guardrails and secure network perimeters (ESPs) in alignment with NERC CIP and IEC 62443 standards.
Operationalize Cloud Infrastructure: Standardize run books, operating processes required to run critical infrastructure with highest reliability.
Day 1: Platform Readiness & Scaling
Resource Governance: Define and enforce Kubernetes resource quotas, limit ranges, and Pod Priority classes to ensure mission-critical services receive prioritized compute resources.
Connectivity & Ingress: Manage the ingress strategy and service mesh architecture to facilitate secure, performant connectivity between distributed micro services.
Acceptance Testing: Lead platform-level smoke, load testing and disaster recovery exercises to validate that the infrastructure can meet 99.99% uptime targets.
Sizing & Optimization: Partner with application teams to right-size containerized workloads, optimizing for both performance and cloud cost (FinOps).
Day 2: Operational Excellence & Tier 3 Support
L3 Escalation: Act as the highest technical escalation point for complex Kubernetes internals, troubleshooting issues such as failed pods, memory leaks, and network partitions.
Incident Response: Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for platform-level outages, implementing systemic fixes to prevent recurring failures.
Toil Elimination: Proactively identify and automate repetitive operational tasks—such as cluster upgrades and OS patching—to ensure the team spends at least 50% of their time on engineering improvements.
Observability Integration: Institutionalize platform monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana, creating dashboards that surface the "Golden Signals" of cluster health.
Technical Requirements
Kubernetes: 5 years of experience operating production-grade Kubernetes clusters at scale.
Orchestration & Observability Tools: Expert-level knowledge of multi-cluster management, performance tuning and experience implementing observability tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, Datadog, etc.
AWS Infrastructure: Deep hands-on experience with AWS core services (EKS, EC2, ALB, S3, RDS, MSK).
Automation Stack: Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, and Python or Go for infrastructure automation and deployment tools like ArgoCD or Flux.
Networking & Security: Strong understanding and hands on experience of cloud networking concepts such as VPCs, routing, load balancing and security configurations such as encryption, certificate management.
Education Qualification
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.
Experience
Professional Background: 6–8 years in SRE or Platform Engineering roles supporting mission-critical, 24/7 cloud environments.
Crisis Management: Proven track record as a structured incident responder who can handle production down/break the glass scenarios in mission critical applications.
Preferred Qualifications
Regulated Environments: Practical knowledge of NERC CIP, SOC2, ISO 27001, or IEC 62443 compliance standards in a SaaS context.
Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, CKA (CertifiedKubernetes Administrator), or SRE Practitioner Certification.
Critical Infrastructure: Experience supporting mission-critical systems in energy, utilities, or other high-stakes industrial sectors.
Business Acumen:
Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics
Leadership:
Coach and mentor team members.
Familiar with concepts of costing hardware and software components. Works to assure work is on-time and within budget
Deliver tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals. Can identify and raise issues, risks and benefits
Participate in change initiatives by implementing new directions and providing appropriate information and feedback
Personal Attributes:
High level of energy and enthusiasm with the ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment
Demonstrated customer focus – evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer; builds strong customer relationships; creates processes with customer viewpoint; partners with customers
Change oriented –actively generates process improvements; champions and drives change initiatives; confronts
Ability to work with global teams, act independently and as part of a team
Apply values, policies, procedures and precedent to make timely, routine decisions of limited, clear choice
Open-mindedly to new perspectives or ideas. Consider different or unusual solutions when appropriate
Resolve day-to-day issues related to strategy implementation. Escalate issues that impact the client and/or strategic initiatives
Strong analytical and strong problem solving skills - communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions; anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
GE Vernova Insights
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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