Senior Virtualization Engineer

Job Description Summary Many employers promise the chance to make a difference at GE Vernova you can change the world. Bringing clean affordable power to the developing world decarbonizing the world electricity network helping to build the grid of the future powered by renewable energy u2026 theyre all part of our company strategy.
We are seeking a dynamic forward-thinking and results-driven Senior Virtualization engineer who will work creating virtualized platforms over various identified hardware platforms to deploy hardware agnostic grid innovation applications. Reporting to AI leader the Senior Virtualization engineer will work in close collaboration with Grid Automation (GA) CTO office Grid Beats and GA Core program managers and other GA functions. This role will also be responsible to work with other functions across Grid Automation (GA) business to identify areas where the business can leverage virtualized systems to drive efficiency increase customer satisfaction and develop POCs to solve critical problems for our customers and build state-of-the-art models and deploy them on edge or cloud based systems.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Senior Virtualization engineer will be responsible for:

• Plan design and implement end-to-end virtualization solutions to meet business needs including virtual machine deployment networking and storage configurations.
• Create and deploy Windows and Linux VMs on various hardware platforms and hypervisors.
• Optimize and run innovative solution using Dockerization techniques.
• Develop dashboards to capture the data from various runs of the applications to visualize analyse and optimize
• Use programming skills innovation and engineering to implement new ideas develop tools and applications or improvise existing methods tools processes and features.
• Implement and maintain security policies and procedures for virtualized environments including access control encryption and intrusion detection.
• Develop tools to measure various execution timings of various events in the system at the required granularity.
• Responsible to plan and complete assigned scope of work within in the required timelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of product management RD and other functions to understand their needs and develop innovative solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS/ REQUIREMENTS :

• Master/PhD in computer science Information technology (IT) electrical engineering or electric power engineering specifically in the computer and electric power engineering field with hands-on experience in data science.
• Expertise in DevOps with Ansible with a minimum 5 to 6 years of experience.
• Hands on experience with hypervisors such as EsXi KVM Xen . . etc Windows Linux Virtual Machines Dockers and related tools
• Strong programming skills in C Python any scripting languages (PowerShell PowerCLI bash) on Windows Linux.
• Deployment experience of Microservices architecture and tools.
• Strong root causing trouble shooting and debugging skills using tools such as Wireshark TCPDump and other Linux and Windows system tools.
• Passion for engineering with Strong technical aptitude and an analytic approach to trouble shooting and problem solving quickly and with the right tools
• Quick Learner and can develop a micro and macro understanding of the scope of work through self-learning and seeking out the right resources virtual people.
• Ability rigor to clearly document and explain design architecture logic.
• Able to share ideas and work well in a team environment proactive approach to tasks displaying initiative.
• Guide and mentor others in the team.
• Flexible and adaptable; open to change and modification of tasks working in multi-tasking environment.

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:

• 9+ years of industry experience.
• Prior experience in relevant areas of power systems programming.
• Hands-on on Yocto and building custom Linux distributions.
• Understanding of TCP/IP communication stack and related communication protocols.
• Ability to administer maintain and troubleshoot Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) attached to VMware environments.
• Understanding of various Logging techniques for performance analysis on Linux.
• Understanding of Industrial Substation automation protocols such as Modbus DNP3 IEC 60870 IEC 61850 etc.
• Understanding of equipment and tools such as secondary injection test kits protocol analysers and simulators MATLAB LabVIEW etc.

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