Senior DevOps and Build Engineer

Job Description Summary

Drives increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse at a release level. Works independently and contributes to the immediate team and to other teams across business. Adds value to build and release engineering discussions.

Job Description

The DevOps and Build Engineer is responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and evolving complex software delivery pipelines across multiple teams and platforms. This role collaborates closely with development, testing, and security teams to ensure the reliable and secure delivery of high-quality software.

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve automation, scalability, and performance.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to streamline workflows and reduce 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.