Staff Application Operations Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role you will:

• Lead daily operations and support critical enterprise applications across production and non-production environments.
• Monitor application availability health capacity batch processing interfaces and performance to ensure service reliability.
• Act as the senior escalation point for high-severity incidents application outages and complex production issues.
• Drive structured problem solving root cause analysis and corrective actions to prevent recurrence of issues.
• Coordinate and support application deployments patches upgrades configuration changes and maintenance activities.
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve application supportability resiliency observability and operational readiness.
• Develop maintain and continuously improve support documentation standard operating procedures runbooks and knowledge articles.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting tooling and workflow automation.
• Support change management release management and environment governance processes to reduce operational risk.
• Investigate issues across application layers including code behavior APIs middleware integrations databases and infrastructure dependencies.
• Work with cybersecurity and compliance stakeholders to ensure applications meet security audit backup access and recovery requirements.
• Analyze operational trends recurring incidents alert patterns and service metrics to recommend and implement improvements.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand critical processes support priorities and operational impacts.
• Mentor less experienced team members and promote strong technical and operational practices across the team.
• Support on-call rotations and provide after-hours support as required for critical business applications.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree from accredited university or college with minimum of 4 years of professional experience OR Associates degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience OR High School Diploma with minimum of 9 years of professional experience
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Application Operations
• Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience

Eligibility Requirement:

• 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.

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:

• Experience with the product
• Understand concepts of setting and driving technical direction
• Familiar with elements of gathering functional requirements
• Understand technical standards & concepts to apply to project work
• Interest in current and emerging technologies demonstrated through training
• job experience and/or industry activities
  
  

Business Acumen:

• Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics

Leadership:

• Coach and mentor team members.
• Familiar with concepts of costing hardware and software components. Works
• to assure work is on-time and within budget
• Deliver tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals. Can identify and raise issues risks and benefits
• Participate in change initiatives by implementing new directions and providing appropriate information and feedback
  

Personal Attributes:

• High level of energy and enthusiasm with the ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated customer focus evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer; builds strong customer relationships; creates processes with customer viewpoint; partners with customers
• Change oriented actively generates process improvements; champions and drives change initiatives; confronts
• Ability to work with global teams act independently and as part of a team
• Apply values policies procedures and precedent to make timely routine decisions of limited clear choice
• Open-mindedly to new perspectives or ideas. Consider different or unusual solutions when appropriate
• Resolve day-to-day issues related to strategy implementation. Escalate issues that impact the client and/or strategic initiatives
• Strong analytical and strong problem solving skills - communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions; anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve
  

Note:

The base pay range for this position is $112000 to $160000 annually. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidates 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 posting is expected to close on September 28th 2026.

GE 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.

GE 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 Sponsors welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA to ensure compliance with applicable legislation the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

This 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)).

GE 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). Employees may also be subject to random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.