**Job Description Summary**

You will be responsible for leading up feature development across our portfolio of Cloud hosting products and services. You will also be expected to work independently and contribute to the immediate team and to other teams across departments. You will also contribute to design, security and architecture discussions.



**Job Description**



**In this role, you will:**



+ Assist in technical discussions and implement architectural decisions for Microsoft Azure

+ Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software, systems, and architecture in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure practices

+ Provide technical leadership to an agile team

+ Work with Technical Product managers (TPMs) to understand product requirements & vision

+ Translate requirements/vision into prioritized list of Themes, Initiatives, Features, User Stories & Tasks and deliver to required timelines and quality standards

+ Work with architects across teams to develop multi generation technology plans and architectures

+ Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse

+ Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities

+ Coach, mentor and lead growing developers on the team

+ Work cross functionally with other departments to align activities and deliverables

+ Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products

+ Communicate effectively both within immediate team and also across product line leadership teams

+ Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results

+ Engage subject matter experts in successful transfer of complex domain knowledge

+ Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Agile, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, Refactoring and Testing Techniques and Solution Architecture & Security

+ Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

+ Keep abreast with industry changes related to Infrastructure as Code, DevOps and related subject areas

+ Push peers to implement security as an architecture

+ Design frameworks for cloud environments to handle identity, serverless code/function and proactive/reactive services

+ Build systems, frameworks, infrastructure and functions that are designed to recover from failure



**Qualifications/Requirements**



+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

+ A minimum of 6 years of professional experience

+ A minimum of 2 years of experience scripting (Powershell, Ruby, Bash/Zsh, Python, Go, Node.js, Rust, etc.) or developing software or cloud native services/applications

+ A minimum of 3 years of Azure DevOps or Jenkins or Serverless Framework and Container experience



**Eligibility Requirements**



+ Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job

+ Must be willing to work out of an office located in Atlanta, GA or Alpharetta, GA



**Desired Characteristics**



**Technical Expertise:**



+ Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or other Public Cloud DevOps and/or Solution Architecture Certification

+ Hands on experience designing and implementing solutions leveraging multiple services within public cloud providers

+ Experience with Windows and Unix / Linux based programming

+ Experience using an automated configuration management or infrastructure as code system (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, Cloudformation, etc.)

+ Knowledge of TCP/IP networking, and inter-networking technologies (routing/switching, proxy, firewall, load balancing etc.)

+ RESTful API Development/Usage

+ Understanding of Document Databases

+ Experience in network security and related infrastructure technologies, cloud-based infrastructure, software defined networks and hybrid connectivity architectures including Azure Global Reach, Express Route & Service Mesh Technologies



**Business Acumen:**



+ Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems

+ Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts

+ Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends

+ Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices



**Leadership:**



+ Ability to takes ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members

+ Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results

+ Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct

+ Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives



**Personal Attributes:**



+ Strong oral and written communication skills

+ Strong interpersonal skills

+ Deep attention to detail

+ Effective team building and problem-solving abilities

+ Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit



**Additional Information**



GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://assets.phenompeople.com/CareerConnectResources/GE11GLOBAL/en\_global/desktop/assets/images/poster\_screen\_reader\_optimized\_w\_supplement.pdf) . Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.



GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).



As a federal government contractor, GE may in the future be required to have U.S. employees fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Some GE customers currently have vaccination mandates that may apply to GE employees.



**Relocation Assistance Provided:** No



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