Description

This role offers the following Work Appropriately strategy:

Hybrid: This position does not require an employee to be on-site full-time to perform most effectively. The employee's role enables them to work at a GM facility or off-site as frequently as needed or desired. This position requires an employee to be onsite up to 3 times per week .

Location : Warren, MI; Austin, TX

About the Launch and Deploy team at General Motors: The Launch and Deploy Team is a DevOps team that is responsible for the execution of all application releases in the manufacturing environment, including installation of new instances and IT required configuration. This includes working with the business to provide all configuration needed to support new vehicle and GPS launches.

About the Software Deployment Manager Role:

The Software Deployment Manager is responsible for the success of the release/deploy and launch of their assigned system. Their work includes maintaining a 4 year plan, making the necessary updates in Morpheus and PPM to support this plan, directing a group of resources with their day to day tasks as they deploy and update software applications used globally in GM's manufacturing plants that build the next generation of transportation. The Manager will be expected to fully understand the technical details associated to their system, and come up with improvements and suggestions for automation.

This person will need to work closely with the dev team to understand any new releases, to provide feedback on code related issues encountered, including entering bugs and features in TFS, and to ensure T2D is completed. This role will need to work closely with the business to understand the business needs at each site. The Manager will need to work closely with Business Facing to understand what is standard and common and what the overall direction is. The Manager will need to work closely with AOS to ensure that our system is transitioned to ops after we complete a deploy/release and also based on the launch T2O milestone schedule. This person will also need to work with his team of people and train them as needed in order for the team to perform deployment activities successfully. Deployment activities will include gathering high-level requirements from manufacturing plant(s), installing and configuring virtual servers, updating existing software installations and/or configuring applications to the specific needs for the plant, SAT, UAT, and troubleshooting issues that may arise relating to either the new code or plant configuration, documentation, T2O, vulnerability reduction and support. This role will contribute to security lifecycle maintenance by ensuring that all third-party applications and operating systems are compliant with the GM IT statement of technical direction. The Lead will be responsible for resolving issues escalated by the team and escalate any issues to upper management as needed.

Other responsibilities include

Identify repeatable deployment actions for automation via scripting or CI/CD pipelines

Have knowledge of software monitoring tools for uptime and performance

Hold themselves and others accountable for demonstrating GMs values and cultural behaviors.

Models GM behaviors and builds a winning culture

Perform other related duties as assigned

Learn new technical concepts and practices quickly and apply them across multiple types of applications and software.

Prospective Manager must possess a high degree of business insight, creativity, decision making skills, a drive for results, the ability to negotiate, the ability to develop strong peer relationships, and a strong technical learning capability and focus.

Additional Description

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, OR equivalent combination of education and/OR recent, relevant work experience

This role MAY require you to travel to physical plant locations for workshop or deployment activities.

This role MAY require you to work during manufacturing plant downtime (weekends, second shift, third shift, holidays).

+10 years of IT experience

Proven experience troubleshooting IT issues

Proven experience in learning new technical concepts and practices

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions

Creative problem-solving skills to issues

Strong teamwork focus with the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams

Demonstrated Experience from at least one area:

Coding: C#/VC++/MFC /Java / Python /ASP.NET/VB.NET/

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, or other databases

Web Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, TomCat, IIS

Infrastructure: Server Provisioning, Virtual Machines, Networking,

OS: Linux, UNIX, Windows Server, Cloud technology

Tools: Team Foundation Server (Azure Dev Ops), IT Service Manager, PowerBI, Jenkins, Chef, GitHub, Fortify, SonarLint/SonarQube, Artifactory

Experience in IT Enterprise Security concepts and implementation

Resource management

Preferred Qualifications:

10+ years of hands-on manufacturing experience in monitoring systems.

Knowledge of manufacturing tools and technologies (e.g., SCADA, Proficy, Cimplicity, etc.)

Knowledge of manufacturing processes and systems

Experience using CIMPLICITY software

Familiarity with programmable logic controllers (PLC) platform is a benefit

Experience in application containerization

Experience in IT Enterprise Security concepts and implementation

Have knowledge of configuring programmable logic controllers (PLCs)

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:

Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;

Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;

Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;

Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;

Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;

Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

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About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Total Rewards Benefits Overview

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Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statements

The policy of General Motors is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. Additionally, General Motors is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at [email protected] or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.