Senior Build and Release Engineer

Essential Functions / Responsibilities

• Contribute to system integration, DevOps, Continuous Improvement (CI), and Continuous Deployment (CD), while interfacing with the external customers, internal engineering group, and project teams.
• Develop, maintain and evolve on-premise container-based deployment infrastructure, Ansible infrastructure, Maven / Jenkins / Artifactory build infrastructure, and related systems while evaluating and deploying new tools.
• Evolve on-premise software pipeline infrastructure to include complete chain of custody security.
• Provide customer support and guidance to adopt the same infrastructure-as-code tooling that is utilized in-house.
• Support the deployment and operation of our product at the customer site.
• Work with software developers to implement and integrate system changes to meet the customer’s needs.
• Work with customer throughout the project life cycle to support the CI/CD setup at customer’s site.
• Participate in testing of the integrated system.
• Identify the need for changes whether they are defects or new enhancements.
• Proactively identify system problems, failures, and areas for improvement.
• Track issue resolution and document solutions implemented and create troubleshooting guides.
• Interact with Product Development Team, Customers, Solution Providers (Partner / Integrators), and other cross-functional teams as required.
• Effectively apply standard execution methodologies and processes.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related. Five (5) years of progressive experience in DevOps (CI/CD), software development, Enterprise System Integration, or a combination thereof.
• Employer will accept a Master’s degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related and two (2) years of experience in DevOps (CI/CD), software development, Enterprise System Integration, or a combination thereof in lieu of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent and five (5) years of progressive experience as described above.
• Work experience to include: Developing, managing, and supporting software used for Bulk Electrical Systems, and Bulk Energy Markets; DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD, and source control management; Git, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Ansible; Kubernetes and containerization; Managing Kubernetes deployments with ArgoCD; Deploying microservices into k8s clusters; Helm Charts; and Using logging and monitoring tools to include: Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus and Jaeger.
• 100% remote position reporting to GE Energy Management Services LLC in Bellevue, WA. Candidate may live anywhere in the continental U.S.
• Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.
• The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location.
• This position is eligible for 10% variable incentive compensation.
• Available health and welfare benefits include healthcare, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage; savings account options (such as a Health Care Flexible Savings Account, Health Reimbursement Account, Limited Purpose Flexible Spending Account, and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account); and an employee assistance program.
• Additional benefits include a defined contribution 401(k) plan, employee life insurance, optional dependent life insurance, employee accidental death or dismemberment insurance coverage, short-term disability, optional long-term disability, pre-tax transportation/commuter program, paid holidays, paid time off, parental leave, a layoff plan for salaried employees, tuition refund program, use of CariLoop, adoption assistance, optional identity theft prevention insurance, optional personal legal assistance, and optional personal excess liability insurance.