Senior Cloud Engineer

Job summary

GE Appliances is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise platforms and services. This role involves implementing automated landing zones, optimizing performance and reliability, and ensuring environments align with governance and security standards. The engineer will collaborate with architects, security, and application teams to deliver cloud solutions that enable modernization and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field or 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems administration.
• 2+ years of experience managing large-scale cloud or hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Familiarity with commonly used programming and scripting languages.
• Proficient with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with at least one associate-level certification.
• Experience supporting infrastructure for distributed or data-intensive platforms.
• Understanding of systems design methodologies including requirements gathering, process modeling, and logical and physical architecture planning.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure Change Management, Release Management, and Version Control Systems, including exposure to CI/CD tools for infrastructure pipelines.
• Experience with performance tuning at the platform or system level (e.g., networking, storage, OS).
• Experience with IT automation tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, or Terraform.
• Understanding of integration challenges between cloud platforms and on-premises services.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and mitigate infrastructure-related risks.
• Excellent collaboration, documentation, and communication skills across global, cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of FinOps or cloud cost-optimization principles.
• Experience with Unix/Linux system administration and common tools (e.g., shell scripting, SSH, sed/awk).
• Previous experience with cloud networking.
• Experience designing or supporting cloud infrastructure for AI/ML workloads.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and incident management in production cloud environments.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methods as they apply to infrastructure projects.
• Experience implementing and managing open-source infrastructure tools or platforms.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to align infrastructure initiatives to business needs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver new infrastructure capabilities and environments that enable enterprise workloads.
• Architect, provision, and configure secure, compliant, and scalable infrastructure to support DevOps and application teams.
• Implement observability practices to ensure system reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and development teams to define access controls, networking, and permissions aligned to governance policies.
• Drive an automation-first and policy-as-code approach to infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Maintain reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) modules and documentation to support consistent environment provisioning.
• Design and implement reusable infrastructure patterns for high availability, monitoring, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver infrastructure components rapidly, enabling continuous delivery workflows.
• Lead or contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and proactive environment improvement efforts.
• Ensure system availability, uptime, patch management, and disaster recovery readiness in line with business objectives.

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