Sr. Staff Build & Release Engineer

Job Description Summary

Sr Staff Build & Release Engineer is responsible for defining, designing and implementing the Build and Release strategy for a product family across all versions and releases. The scope can include multiple products at times. Provides the vision to understand, design and embed continuous integration process within SDLC. Seen as a technical leader.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own builds, releases and continuous integration process for large and complex releases of a product and at times expands the scope across multiple concurrent releases.
• Own, manage and improve release process. Focuses on scale and efficiency. Deploys the right builds across environments.
• Manage key deliverables and mentors junior team members.
• Contribute to driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.
• Work cross-functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables.
• Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams.
• Determine best practices and principles and promote them across the team.
  Demonstrate expert knowledge in developing and executing automated builds and scripts.
• Learn new build and releases techniques and methodologies and trains the team in the same.
• Work with developers and stakeholders to deliver quality software through the build and deployment system.
• Partner with and provides directions to fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Use industry's best practices to improve Build, Release and Continuous integration processes.
• Skilled at discovering problems and identifying solutions.
• Experience with writing tests based on requirements.
• Comfortable interacting with other teams and building networks.
• Experience as a build manager and CI that can troubleshoot build tool issues.
• Experience as Artifactory Admin.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting issues for team.
• Experience with software tool qualification.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• This role requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain US Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. citizenship.

Desired Characteristics and Technical Expertise:

• Contributes in driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.

• Experience with Python, Perl, TCL, SCADE, C, SIMICS, NPSS, ARM compiler, makefiles, and postscript.

• Expert in developing code for other developers to learn from.

Business Acumen
• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments.
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks.
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective.

Leadership
• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions.
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill.

Personal Attributes
• Able to work under minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work.
• Applies values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions in ambiguity and with uncertain consequences.

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: Yes