DevOps Engineer; Level 3

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Polygraph

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10 of the Time

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact peoples lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nations history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, theyre making history.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal (Level
3) OR Sr. Principal (Level
4) Dev Ops Engineer to join our team based in Aurora, Colorado
.

• Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.

• Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.

• Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.

• Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.

• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology.

• Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.

• Work closely with development teams to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.

• Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.

• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.

• Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.

• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.

• Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.

• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.

This position can be filled at either Principal OR Sr. Principal level.

• Candidate must possess an active Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time application AND CI Polygraph to be considered

• Principal/Level 3: Bachelor’s degree with 5 + years of relevant experience; 3 years with a Masters; 0 years with a PhD; or 9 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.

• Sr. Principal/Level 4: Bachelor’s degree with 8 + years of relevant experience; 6 years with a Masters; 4 years with a PhD; or 12 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree

• Security+, not needed to start, but must be able to obtain within 6 months

• Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.

• Experience in an Agile software development framework

• Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualifications

• Terraform
• Kubernetes administration
• AWS administration
• Flux
• Helm
• DynamoDB
• NATS configuration
• Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
• Jenkins/Git Lab/Bamboo

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $

Secondary Level Salary Range: $ - $

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidates experience, education, skills and current spanet conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to…