Staff Software Architect

Job Description Summary

Responsible for multiple software projects as a project leader or internal consultant.

Job Description

In this role, you will

·Develop automated solutions to predict and address potential problems before they result in a service interruption

·Oversee and adapt monitoring and alerting systems

·Define and drive architectural enhancements into system to mitigate potential failure points.

·Provide impact assessment and mitigation plan for changes going into the production environment

·Investigate root cause of severe and systemic outages, identify corrective actions

·Establish performance baseline, capacity thresholds, correlate events, and define monitoring/alerting criteria

·Provide technical coaching and direction to more junior teammates

Educational Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with advanced experience.

Looking for 10+ Years of hands-on experience.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise

·Expertise in sampling theory, probability distribution functions, and Weibull Analysis.

·Expertise in defining and managing reliability growth metrics and design of experiments.

·Experience with all stages of an agile software development lifecycle (CI/CD)

·Familiar with large scale cluster management systems (Mesos, Kubernetes)

·Demonstrated ability to script around repeatable tasks (Go/Ruby/Python/Bash)

·Experience with developing cloud-native applications (High Availability)

·Able to dive into any level of a modern internet service (schedulers, containers, Linux kernel, caching, object storage, distributed filesystems, RDBMS, NoSQL, etc.)

·Comfortable with network troubleshooting (tcpdump, routing, proxies, firewalls, load balancers, etc.)

·Able to troubleshoot and debug applications (C++/Java)

·Proficient in configuration management systems (Chef, , Ansible,)

·Experience with configuring, customizing, and extending monitoring tools (Sensu/Grafana/Prometheus/Graphite/Splunk, etc.)

·Experience deploying and managing infrastructure on public clouds (AWS or GCP or Azure)

·Comfortable using Git on the command line

Leadership

·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.

·Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands and encourages change when needed.

·Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.

·Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.

·Self-starter; communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.

Personal Attributes

·Critical thinker; able to quickly adapt to changing environments

·Risk taker, not afraid to think outside the box or challenge the status quo

·Emotional Intelligence, ability to influence up and out and the ability to work independently

·Must be a team player with a strong desire to win

·Passionate about continuously learning

·Highly organized and efficient; able to balance competing priorities and execute accordingly

Inclusion and Diversity

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. 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.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.

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