*Job Description Summary*

Responsible for multiple projects in a technical domain as a technical expert or internal consultant. Will work on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge of two or more specialized architecture areas. Will across multiple technical or functional domains.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Service Design:

• Architect and oversee the delivery of a Cybersecurity Service Rail offering:
• Remote Access: Secure access using appropriate architecture.
• Identity Management: Integration and management of tools (including Microsoft Active Directory) while working to leverage one-way trust of enterprise AD.
• Managed File Transfer: Secure file and data exchange services.
• Patch & Update Management for Operating Systems in use.
• Container Registry: Deployment and governance.
• System Automation: Configuration management, system hardening, reporting, and automation.
• Additional services including virtualization, email relay, antivirus, and other foundational services.

DevOps & CI/CD Enablement:

• Lead the design, implementation, and support of a self-hosted Agile development platform.
• Promote the use of CI/CD pipelines and best practices to support modern software delivery.
• Integrate infrastructure and security automation into development lifecycles.

Leadership & Governance:

• Establish and refine standard work for infrastructure services including observability, access controls, performance, and cost optimization.
• Drive service standardization and reusable patterns across teams and environments.
• Champion Agile, Lean, and DevSecOps methodologies for infrastructure delivery and operations.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement:

• Stay informed of industry trends and emerging technologies in:
• Containerization and orchestration
• Platform engineering
• Cloud-native infrastructure
• Distributed/streaming systems operations
• DevOps and GitOps practices
• CI/CD frameworks and toolchains
• Continuously assess and recommend improvements to systems, tools, and processes.

Related Skills & Experience:

• Deep expertise in server and clustered environments involving Linux & Windows environments, including capability to Install, configure, administer, harden, and upgrade Linux servers.
• Practiced understanding of Networking fundamentals and distributed systems.
• CISSP Credentialed (or practiced) in security infrastructure services, their controls and necessary audit trails with ability to integrate LDAP, SAML, and Active Directory and deploy in highly segmented networks.
• Demonstrable experience with:
• Red Hat Satellite, WSUS
• Harbor, Ansible, GitLab
• Solid understanding of virtualization and containerization platforms, network services, and endpoint protection with hands-on experience in installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance.
• Experience with SLOs/SLIs as well as health monitoring dashboards, automating recurring checks, post-deployment validation, remediation and incident triage.
• Solid scripting and automation skills, clear communicator who writes excellent documents and can translate ambiguous input into clear objectives and practices.
• Well-experienced with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and Lean principles.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of with 5+ years practiced experience in architecture
• 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 opening.

Desired Characteristics

Soft Skills

• Change Agent - Identifies opportunities for necessary changes and pursues/leads them when appropriate. Evaluates progress and involves peers and team members in analyzing strengths and weaknesses in performance. Works with executive stakeholders to embrace the implications of change. Recommends changes that impact strategic business direction. Leads the planning and implementation of change programs that impact critical processes. Subdivides major deliverables into smaller, manageable components and re-appropriates existing solutions to new requirements and situations. Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address problems.
• Collaboration - Establishes & communicates team members' roles in relation to their function and data. Shares knowledge, power and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill. Coordinates role responsibilities with that of others to achieve mutual goals. Encourages groups to work together to resolve problems. Proactively coaches and/or mentors others to improve their contribution to the team. Fosters relationship building between team members and those outside the team. Works with others to achieve goals without regard to band/title. Identifies gaps in roles on teams, and is recognized for growing and distributing talent pools across the organization.
• Comfort in Ambiguity - Acts and decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain. Makes decisions and course corrects as a result of the feedback from those decisions. Presents results with alternatives and scenarios. Creates new tools and methods for gaining data and driving clarity. Supports the team to drive through ambiguity.
• Communication - Creates stories and utilizes two-way communications. Communicates functional strategy and roadmap with detail for teams to utilize. Describes functional area information to leaders. Coaches others on presentation skills. Collaborates with leadership on mediums and messages that drive the intended direction of the organization with measurable results. Determines the need for theoretical explanations vs. a business actionable answer in a presentation.
• Consulting - Provides options and counsel. Drives dialogues that produce new perspectives and substantial innovation, enhancements and analysis of consequences. Consults on projects to fit systems or infrastructure, and project goals to their function, and vice versa. Provides risk-assessed options in relation to process enhancement and professional expertise. Consults on data or data infrastructure development projects and identifies when necessary to modify the solution.
• Curiosity/Creativity - Connects ideas and solutions from a broad array of sources (e.g., what other businesses are doing, brainstorming with others). Pilots new ideas and processes that have not been utilized before.
• Decision Making & Risk Management - Participates in the creation of company-wide risk management strategies. Works with senior business leaders to communicate risks, impact, and mitigation plans for the business. Applies best practices to take calculated risks. Takes risks and learns from failures. Encourages ideas from others that may include risk but may provide great gains for the organization.
• Influence - Influences through others, including by use of experts or other third parties. Builds direct and ""behind the scenes"" support for ideas. Foresees downstream consequences and tailors communication strategy to support a positive outcome.
• Problem Solving - Identifies future roadblocks and promotes data-based problem solving. Assesses & prioritizes problems in relation to organizational goals. Coordinates team's work and performance with broader organizational objectives and manages conflicts between them. Advises others in how to solve difficult problems.

Abilities

• Influences SPBs and below on their decisions.
• Set the roadmap across projects for infrastructure architecture.
• Design a solution that maps a complex technology to an OT reference infrastructure architecture.
• Understands industry standards and defines criteria to perform proof-of-concepts.
• Participates in domain technical and business discussions relative to future infrastructure architecture direction aligning with business goals.
• Gathers data and develops infrastructure architecture requirements at project level, aligning architectural requirements with software development strategy.
• Reviews exceptions and makes recommendations to infrastructure architecture standards at a domain level.
• Acts as a subject matter expert for infrastructure architecture.
• Understands the overall industry trends and technology in the infrastructure architecture domain.
• Provides support and technical governance, expertise related to infrastructure architectures, deployment and operations.
• Coaches and mentors team members on technical skills (1-2).

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

*Additional Information*

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace 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).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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