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GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy.
The Role
Leads DevOps strategy and transformation across an enterprise transmission software portfolio. Defines CI/CD, release engineering, DevSecOps, cloud-native, infrastructure-as-code, observability, automation, and platform engineering standards. Modernizes legacy delivery processes, improves developer productivity and deployment reliability, establishes engineering metrics, and mentors technical teams while collaborating across engineering, product, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and quality organizations.
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Job Description SummaryAs a Staff DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical leadership role in GE Vernova Grid Software's mission of enabling a more sustainable, reliable, and resilient energy future by defining and executing the DevOps strategy across the Transmission portfolio, spanning both heritage products and GridOS-based solutions. You will drive the transformation of software delivery practices, modernize build and release ecosystems, establish enterprise-scale CI/CD standards, and accelerate engineering productivity through automation, cloud-native platforms, and DevSecOps practices.
Leveraging deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, automation, release engineering, observability, and platform engineering, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable engineering systems that enable reliable, secure, and predictable software delivery across a diverse product portfolio. You will partner closely with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, cybersecurity teams, and infrastructure organizations to establish common DevOps frameworks, deployment standards, and operational excellence practices.
The ideal candidate possesses strong technical leadership, hands-on implementation experience, and a proven track record of driving large-scale DevOps transformations across complex enterprise software environments.Job DescriptionResponsibilities
Technical Skills & Additional Experience
Leadership Expectations
Leveraging deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, automation, release engineering, observability, and platform engineering, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable engineering systems that enable reliable, secure, and predictable software delivery across a diverse product portfolio. You will partner closely with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, cybersecurity teams, and infrastructure organizations to establish common DevOps frameworks, deployment standards, and operational excellence practices.
The ideal candidate possesses strong technical leadership, hands-on implementation experience, and a proven track record of driving large-scale DevOps transformations across complex enterprise software environments.Job DescriptionResponsibilities
- Define and own the DevOps vision, strategy, roadmap, and implementation across the Transmission Software portfolio, including both heritage EMS/SCADA products and GridOS-native applications.
- Lead the standardization and modernization of CI/CD platforms, build systems, release pipelines, artifact management, and deployment automation across multiple product lines.
- Drive adoption of DevSecOps practices, integrating security scanning, compliance checks, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement into engineering workflows.
- Establish enterprise-wide standards for source control, branching models, automated testing, release governance, environment management, and deployment processes.
- Partner with engineering teams to enable cloud-native development practices leveraging containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and platform engineering principles.
- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks that improve developer productivity, reduce manual effort, and accelerate software delivery cycles.
- Lead modernization initiatives to transition legacy build, deployment, and release processes toward highly automated and self-service platforms.
- Partner with product engineering and quality organizations to achieve best-in-class automation coverage, deployment reliability, release quality, and operational readiness.
- Define and track key DevOps metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR, pipeline efficiency, and engineering productivity.
- Drive implementation of observability solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards across portfolio products.
- Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and platform teams to ensure highly available, secure, and scalable engineering environments.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, implementation guidance, mentoring, and coaching of DevOps engineers and development teams.
- Champion Agile, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Platform Engineering best practices throughout the organization.
- Partner with global engineering teams to improve release predictability, deployment consistency, operational excellence, and customer delivery outcomes.
- Drive portfolio-wide initiatives to reduce technical debt, improve developer experience, and establish a modern software delivery ecosystem.
- Deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Software Delivery at enterprise scale.
- Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD platforms using technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar frameworks.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or GCP, and modern cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, container orchestration, and platform automation.
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
- Experience building enterprise-scale deployment automation and release management processes supporting multiple global development teams.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, application security, compliance automation, vulnerability management, and secure software delivery practices.
- Expertise in observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
- Experience supporting both legacy enterprise applications and modern microservices-based architectures.
- Strong understanding of software quality engineering, automated testing strategies, test orchestration, and quality gates.
- Knowledge of power systems, transmission operations, EMS, SCADA, GridOS, utility software, or industrial control systems is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations, drive transformation initiatives, and build consensus across multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and organizational change management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or related STEM discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Platform Engineering, Release Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience leading DevOps transformation initiatives across enterprise software organizations.
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms, cloud technologies, automation tooling, infrastructure management, and software delivery systems.
- Demonstrated experience driving organization-wide engineering productivity, automation, and modernization programs.
Technical Skills & Additional Experience
- CI/CD Platforms: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP
- Container Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm, Ansible
- Source Control & SCM: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, OpenTelemetry
- Security: DevSecOps, SAST, DAST, SBOM, Container Security
- Release Engineering & Environment Management
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms
- Automated Testing & Quality Engineering
- Enterprise Software Delivery and Portfolio Governance
Leadership Expectations
- Serve as the technical leader for DevOps strategy and execution across the entire Transmission portfolio.
- Drive alignment between GridOS and heritage product teams to establish common DevOps standards and reusable platforms.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Engineering, Product Management, Quality Engineering, Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, and Customer Delivery teams.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of automation, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Define and report portfolio-level engineering health metrics and continuously improve software delivery performance.
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, or a related STEM discipline
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps engineering, platform engineering, release engineering, or cloud infrastructure
- 5+ years of experience leading DevOps transformation initiatives across enterprise software organizations
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms, cloud technologies, automation tooling, infrastructure management, and software delivery systems
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, container orchestration, and platform automation
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or equivalent
- Experience building enterprise-scale deployment automation and release management processes
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, application security, compliance automation, vulnerability management, and secure software delivery
- Expertise in observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience supporting legacy enterprise applications and modern microservices architectures
- Strong understanding of software quality engineering, automated testing strategies, test orchestration, and quality gates
- Demonstrated experience driving organization-wide engineering productivity, automation, and modernization programs
- Knowledge of power systems, transmission operations, EMS, SCADA, GridOS, utility software, or industrial control systems
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.
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The Company
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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