Senior DevOps and Build Engineer

duce friction in the software development lifecycle.

• Drive efficiency by identifying and eliminating redundant processes, promoting reuse of tools and technologies, and establishing standardized practices.

• Monitor and address third-party vulnerabilities (CVEs) across many components coordinating with other development teams as needed

• Provide primary operational support for build and test systems

• Directly support other teams with build and deployment issues

• Document procedures for building and deploying distributed software applications run in Kubernetes

• Champion DevOps best practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Required Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in with advanced experience.

• Able to legally work in Mexico. This position can work remotely only within Mexico.

• Effective written and oral communication skills in English and Spanish.

• Experience with creating and maintaining common build tools including Artifactory/Nexus**,** Jenkins, and/or GitHub Actions (preferred)

• Hands on Kubernetes experience required with work in Amazon EKS, or other managed Kubernetes services, preferred

• Familiarity with Kubernetes technologies including Istio/service mesh, Grafana and Prometheus

Desired Characteristics/Technical Expertise:

• Able to assess code, build it, and run applications locally on his/her own

• Demonstrate expertise in writing scripts to automate tasks

• Familiarity with principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques.

• Exposure to deployment tools commonly used in Kubernetes environments

• Strong communications skills with previous operational (tier 1/2/3) support experience

Business Acumen:

• Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision. Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition.

• Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g., Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices).

• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution.

• Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI). Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance.

• Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses. Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.

Leadership:

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.

• Uses experts or other third parties to influence.

• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed.

• Participates in technical strategy planning.

• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.

• Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.

• Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices.

• Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.

• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.

• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly 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 seemingly unanswerable problems.

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Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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