Staff DevOps Engineer
GE Vernova · Posted Oct 28
Power generation, wind turbine, grid solution, and electrification services
16th and 17th floor, Tower 2, Sattva Knowledge Park, Hyderabad, Telangāna, 500081, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff10+ years₹45.0L–₹70.0L yearly39 applicants
EnergyPower GenerationRenewable EnergyElectrificationWind EnergyPublic Company
Full time
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About the role
GE Vernova Grid Software works on Transmission software, including heritage EMS/SCADA products and GridOS-native applications, to support a more sustainable, reliable, and resilient energy future. The Staff DevOps Engineer will define and execute DevOps strategy across the portfolio, modernizing CI/CD, release engineering, cloud-native platforms, and DevSecOps practices. The role partners with engineering, product, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to establish enterprise-scale standards and improve software delivery.
What you will do
- Define and own the DevOps vision, strategy, roadmap, and implementation across the Transmission Software portfolio, including both heritage EMS/SCADA products and GridOS-native applications.
- Lead the 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 practices leveraging containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and platform engineering principles.
- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks that improve developer productivity, reduce manual effort, and accelerate software delivery cycles.
- Lead modernization initiatives to transition legacy build, deployment, and release processes toward highly automated and 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 (SRE), and Platform Engineering best practices throughout 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.
- Serve as the technical leader for DevOps strategy and execution across the entire Transmission portfolio.
- Drive alignment between GridOS and heritage product teams to establish common DevOps standards and reusable platforms.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Engineering, Product Management, Quality Engineering, Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, and Customer Delivery teams.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of automation, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Define and report portfolio-level engineering health metrics and continuously improve software delivery performance.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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 technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar frameworks.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms including 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 technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
- Experience building enterprise-scale deployment automation and release management processes supporting multiple global development teams.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, application security, compliance automation, vulnerability management, and secure software delivery practices.
- Expertise in observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
- 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 is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations, drive transformation initiatives, and build consensus across multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and organizational change management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or 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.
- CI/CD Platforms: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP
- Container Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm, Ansible
- Source Control & SCM: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, OpenTelemetry
- Security: DevSecOps, SAST, DAST, SBOM, Container Security
- Release Engineering & Environment Management
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms
- Automated Testing & Quality Engineering
- Enterprise Software Delivery and Portfolio Governance
Benefits and support
- Relocation assistance
About GE Vernova
GE Vernova Inc. is a global energy company that provides equipment, services, and software to generate, transfer, orchestrate, convert, and store electricity. Operating through its Power, Wind, and Electrification segments, the company supports a broad customer base across more than 100 countries in powering economies and driving the energy transition. Formed as part of the strategic spin-off of General Electric's energy portfolio, GE Vernova is dedicated to electrifying and decarbonizing the world.
- Industry
- Energy
- Company size
- 75000+ employees
- Founded
- 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
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Scott Strazik
Chief Executive Officer and President
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Stephen F. Angel
Chairman of the Board
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Lola Lin
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
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Roger Martella
Chief Corporate Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer & Head of Global Government Affairs
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Eric Gray
CEO, Power Segment
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