Site Reliability Engineer; AHT Security Clearance

Position: Site Reliability Engineer (AHT) with Security Clearance
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top Secret TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's 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 nation's 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, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS), Beavercreek Ohio, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to define what "reliable enough" means from the user's perspective, instrumenting and measuring against those targets, and building the tooling and runbooks that make failure recoverable. Candidates will partner with dev teams pushing operational quality upstream before code ships and lead problem resolution in production. SREs are comfortable debugging distributed systems, resolving incidents, and translating findings into lasting reliability improvements.

They will work closely with software developer teams accomplishing the following:
* Incident Response - Lead real time detection, triage, and resolution of production incidents; conduct post mortems and drive corrective actions. Complete work independently and as a part of an Agile team

* Toil Reduction - Identify repetitive operational work, develop automation and runbooks, and implement CI/CD pipelines to reduce manual effort

* Reliability Evaluations - Define service level objectives (SLOs) and error budget policies; assess system reliability against those targets using observability data

* Platform Enablement - Build and maintain shared tooling (e.g., Kubernetes clusters, Git Ops workflows); enable development teams with SDKs, instrumentation guidance, and reliability best practices This requisition may be filled at a higher level based on qualifications listed below and is contingent on funding.

Basic Qualifications:

* Engineer (Level
2): 2+ years related experience with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related STEM degree from an accredited institution; 0 years with Master's degree

* Principal Engineer (Level
3): 5+ years related experience with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related STEM degree from an accredited institution; 3 years with Master's degree

* U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance

* Systems-thinking mindset - understand how components fail together and assess blast radius

* Observability fundamentals - beyond the three signals, know how to use telemetry to optimize services and engineers' quality of life

* Basic software-engineering skills - build automation, non-trivial APIs, follow Git workflows, and actively participate in code reviews

* Linux and networking fundamentals

* Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational abilities

* Specialty Skills (1 or more):

* Platform & Infrastructure - Kubernetes, Argo CD/Git Ops, disaster recovery planning, capacity forecasting

* Observability - Open Telemetry standards, Grafana/Perses, Tempo, Click House, Victoria Metrics

* Automation & Toil Reduction - Scripting, CI/CD pipeline development, runbook automation, "Dev Ops" practices

* Developer Enablement - Instrumentation SDKs, onboarding of SRE practices for engineering teams

* Data & Alerting - High quality dashboards, alert design, anomaly detection techniques

Preferred Qualifications:

* SRE related certifications (e.g., Dev Ops Institute, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent)

* Hands on experience with:
Python, Go, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Git Lab/Git Hub, Jenkins, Docker, Locust/Gatling, Prometheus, Grafana/Perses

* Experience with container orchestration, service mesh, and cloud native infrastructure

* Proven track record of driving reliability improvements in large scale, distributed systems

* Familiarity with security best practices for cloud and on prem environments. Primary Level Salary Range: $83,400.00 - $ 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 candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company…