DERMS Technology Specialist

Job Description Summary

The DERMS Technology Specialist is a pivotal part of the GE Vernova's GridOS services organization serving as the technical authority responsible for governing the technical strategy and standardization of DERMS implementation across our Utilities clients.

This role ensures that GridOS DERMS product suite is delivered through consistent, repeatable, utility-grade architectural patterns across customer programs reducing variability, accelerating deployments and upgrades, and strengthening overall product interoperability, quality and a streamlined managed services operation.

Partnering with product management, engineering, project teams, customers, and ecosystem partners to drive innovation, ensure standardization, integrity, and deliver high-quality technical outcomes across the GridOS DERMS service line.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Define and continuously evolve end-to-end technical implementation vision and strategy for GridOS DERMS product aligned with GridOS platform strategy ensuring the implementation supports regulatory and grid modernization trends.
• Technical leadership that raises the standard, quality for technical delivery and excellence through influence, mentorship, and decisive technical direction
• Act as a technical thought leader and serve as a final escalation point with key utility customers, demonstrating expertise in GridOS DERMS, grid operations, and distributed energy ecosystems
• Establish standardized GridOS DERMS implementation frameworks and methodologies, including reference architectures, configuration models, deployment templates and integration patterns to ensure consistency across all projects.
• Standardize GridOS DERMS product suite delivery and deployment leveraging consistent Kubernetes-based microservices patterns, accelerating delivery, simplifying integration, and ensuring high reliability and scalability across all customer programs.
• Work with our customers as a technical partner to customize the solution to cater to customer requirements wherever necessary for compliance within the established governance & implementation frameworks
• Author, standardize and maintain GridOS DERMS Implementation Playbooks covering Kubernetes cluster configuration, capacity requirements for customer specific implementations, microservice deployment workflows, API governance and integration approaches, Standard monitoring, logging, and security patterns. Ensure all customer deployments follow repeatable, validated, and supportable cloud-native hybrid or on-prem patterns.
• Work collaboratively with a strong team of Project Managers, Delivery Managers, Technical Leads, Solution Specialists and global team to drive solution architecture based on customer needs solution capabilities along with input into project status, risks and mitigation, scope, and issues
• Utilize GE Product knowledge including but not limited to GridOS, DERMS, Connect and Data Fabric and expertise to drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement around costs base reduction, lead time reduction, productivity improvement, quality improvement

• Highly proficient in designing, deploying, and managing large-scale microservices architectures with deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) orchestration and multi-cluster management using Rancher (RKE2).
• Skilled in implementing containerized workloads, service meshes, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and end-to-end observability across distributed systems.
• Advanced proficiency in ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows, multi-cluster orchestration, automated drift detection, progressive delivery, Kustomize/Helm templating.
• Experienced in architecting resilient GitOps, DevSecops CD with Kubernetes with enterprise-grade security controls.
• Proficient in PKI and Zero Trust security frameworks with deep expertise in implementing TLS/mTLS across distributed energy systems, microservices, and utility-grade platforms.
• Experienced in designing and enforcing identity-centric security using automated certificate management, hardened trust chains, secure aggregator integrations, and end-to-end encryption of data-in-motion for regulated utility environments.
• Technical Thought Leadership and expertise in DevSecOps, GitOps principles, processes and tools for evolving the processes of continuous deployment of GridOS DERMS product in multi-cloud, hybrid, on-prem or edge platforms utilizing zero-trust and defence-in-depth security architecture principles.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate and/or Microsoft Azure Administrator with extensive mastery of cloud frameworks, zero trust cloud architectures, hybrid cloud deployment models, secure landing zones architecture, and cloud-native enablement for highly regulated DER and utility platforms.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or engineering or have the relevant hands-on experience to succeed.
• 15 plus years of enterprise application development, deployment, and integration experience

• DevSecOps, GitOps processes, principles, tools and methodology
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, and / or GCP Cloud Platforms Technologies.
• RHEL 8+, RHEL 9, Linux OS and shell scripting.
• Configuration Management - Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, GitOps - ArgoCD
• Microservices based architecture - Docker, Kernel-based VM, Kubernetes, Rancher - RKE2 Engine
• Knowledge on relational and non-relational databases - PostgresSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
• Kafka, Nginx, HA Proxy, Apache, Python, JSON, YAML, Bash, Gitea, GitHub, Gitlabs, JFrog Artifactory
• Pipeline integration with DevOps Tools such as GIT, Docker, K8 containers, SonarQube, Nexus, Vault, test automation, Fortify, and Twistlock, Gitea, and Jenkins.
• Agile/Lean principles such as SCRUM, Kanban, MVP.
• Knowledge of security best practices including authentication protocols, TLS, MTLS, Zero-trust Security, ACL rules, and Identity Management mechanisms.
• Experience working with Azure, Windows and Linux Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Systems, and Infras

• Problem Solving
  • You can quickly understand and analyse various approaches and processes and are able to configure solutions to client needs given existing product functionality.
  • You can drill down to the details, obtaining the right level of specificity for your team.
  • You can creatively solve complex problems. Understanding of how to triage and debug any issues that arise during testing and production.
  • Possesses excellent analytical and problem resolution skills.
• Communication
  • Strong written and verbal communication style.
  • Can effectively share complex technical topics with various levels of audience.
• Growth Mindset
  • You are deeply curious and love to ask questions.
  • You're a lifelong learner.
  • Ability and desire to learn different skills outside of their domain of expertise.
• Client Focus
  • You enjoy being in front of clients, listening to their needs.
  • You are deeply focused on ensuring their success.
  • You can create powerful user stories detailing the needs of your clients.
• Innovation
  • A genuine interest in new tools and technology.
  • You learn new software quickly without extensive documentation or hand holding.
  • High enthusiasm with a sense of urgency to get things done.