Staff DevOps Engineer

Overview

Define and execute the DevOps strategy across GE Vernova's Transmission software portfolio, covering heritage EMS/SCADA products and GridOS-based solutions, to enable reliable, secure and predictable software delivery.

What you'll do

• Define and own the DevOps vision, strategy, roadmap and implementation across the Transmission Software portfolio, including heritage EMS/SCADA products and GridOS-native applications.
• Lead 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 using containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering principles.
• Design and implement scalable automation frameworks that improve developer productivity, reduce manual effort and accelerate delivery cycles.
• Lead modernization of legacy build, deployment and release processes toward highly automated, 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 and Platform Engineering best practices across 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.

What you'll need

• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• 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 Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar frameworks.
• Strong experience with 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 such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation or equivalent.
• Experience building enterprise-scale deployment automation and release management processes for multiple global development teams.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, application security, compliance automation, vulnerability management and secure software delivery.
• Expertise in observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, OpenTelemetry or similar.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations, drive transformation initiatives and build consensus across stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management and organizational change management skills.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.
• Relocation assistance provided.