Staff DevOps Engineer

• 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.

Desired Characteristics

• 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.