{"id":3326125,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ge-aerospace-director-infrastructure-and-platform","title":"Director, Infrastructure and Platform","company":{"id":13089,"name":"GE Aerospace","domain":"geaerospace.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/geaerospace","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":89,"open_postings":34,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.647,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":15,"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":157000,"max_usd":283000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":727},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure Data Factory","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"SRE","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-27T10:07:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-27","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T10:40:02Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Job Description Summary\nThe Director, Infrastructure & Platform leads the team that creates standard, reliable environments on which Defense & Systems builds, tests, and delivers software. The team owns the secure platforms, shared services, and the single golden-path delivery pipeline that the organization's software developers depend on, so that delivery is dependable, on time, and to standard. The role runs the platform as a product, not as a help desk.This is a people-leadership role accountable for both the operating model and the people who run it. The Director sets the platform roadmap and service standards, mandates the golden path that product teams adopt, and holds the team to FLIGHT DECK standard work and a bias toward flow. Success improves Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost by removing undifferentiated infrastructure work from every software team and replacing ad-hoc environments with a governed, consumable platform.\nJob Description\nRoles and Responsibilities\nTeam leadership and talent\nLead and develop the Infrastructure & Platform team - technical program management, platform and infrastructure engineering, and infrastructure architecture - with clear role clarity, objectives, and standard work for each seat\nOwn the team’s performance and development; build a culture of ownership, flow, and continuous improvement\nIdentify and remove obstacles on behalf of the team, and coach problem-solving at the point of work\nPlatform operating model and governance\nOwn and mandate a single golden-path delivery pipeline - CI/CD, environments, and shared services - that all product teams adopt, and govern the exception process when a team cannot\nOperate the platform as a product: a named backlog, a published roadmap, and service standards for availability, support, change management, and SLAs\nEstablish how platform change is requested, prioritized, approved, and released, and make that governance visible to the teams it affects\nPartner with Cyber Security to build security best practice into the platform by default, and scope the DevSecOps capability gap as an explicit Phase 2 headcount ask\nDelivery and reliability\nEnsure secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments in a defense context\nSet the operating rhythm - daily management, WOR, and MOR - that keeps reliability and delivery managed, not merely reported\nPartner with the four product-development software teams so the platform meets their current needs and anticipates their future ones\nCross-organization alignment\nRepresent Infrastructure & Platform in the Tech Ops leadership cadence and align the platform roadmap to the enterprise and CDAIO baseline\nPartner with the Director, Architecture & Data so platform patterns and architecture guardrails stay coupled\nBasic qualifications (required)\nBachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with a minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR Associate's degree with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with a minimum of 12 years of professional experience.\nMinimum 6 years of professional experience in Infrastructure & Platform Engineering or IT.\nMinimum 3 years of experience leading technical teams.\nNote: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.\nEligibility requirement\nLegal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. GE Aerospace will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.\nExport Control Required (ITAR/EAR).\nDesired characteristics (preferred, not mandatory)\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering.\nExperience building and running an internal platform or paved-road capability as a product, with defined service levels.\nPlatform engineering and site reliability engineering (SRE) background: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and on-call operations.\nWorking knowledge of cloud (AWS or Azure), hybrid, and edge environments.\nDemonstrated understanding of FLIGHT DECK, Lean, or a comparable operating model (e.g., Scaled Agile Framework, continuous improvement).\nTrack record leading and developing technical teams across a complex, matrixed organization.\nAbility to drive adoption of a shared standard across teams that do not report to you.\nDefense, aerospace, or other regulated or export-controlled environment background.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a US Government SECRET security clearance.\nSuccess metrics\nProduct teams on the golden-path pipeline - adoption rate across the four software teams\nPlatform availability and reliability against published SLAs\nDelivery improvement for teams on the platform: lead time and deployment frequency (DORA)\nChange failure rate and time-to-restore for platform services\nTeam health: role clarity in place, objectives set, and engagement sustained\n\nWhy this role\nDefense & Systems is building a software and data factory, not just products, and this team owns the factory floor. You will decide the paved road every software team drives on, run the platform as a governed product, and lead the people who build and operate it. The mandate is to make dependable delivery the default, and the result shows up in every team's lead time.\nNotes:\nThe base pay range for this position is $152, 000 to $222,000 annually. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on November 2nd, 2026.\nGE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.\nGE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.\nThis role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).\nAdditional Information\nGE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer . 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.\nGE Aerospace 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). 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