DevOps Engineer – Level 3

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
Yes.

Clearance type: SCI.

Travel:
Yes, 10% of the time.

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.

Please be aware that this position is contingent upon capturing program award(s) and obtaining and maintaining associated business and/or customer funding. The candidate must obtain final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company. Continued employment will be subject to maintenance at the level of clearance and program access required for the position.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Automate cloud native technologies, deploy applications, and provision critical infrastructure
• Work with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology
• Work within the Open Stack cloud ecosystem to configure and deploy optimized infrastructure
• Ensure monitoring and health of the resources deployed via Nagios or other enterprise management solutions
• Document procedures used during deployment cycles
• Experience with operational monitoring tools
• Work with the fellow Dev Ops team and play a mentoring role to cross‑train and grow technical talent across Dev Ops team and assist in troubleshooting tasks
• Implement clean and maintainable infrastructure‑as‑code that adheres to industry best practices, terraform
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree
• Requires an active Top‑Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] at time of application, current and within scope
• 3+ years of Dev Ops experience
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives
• Experience in Jira metrics reporting
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, & Ansible
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s)

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree
• Requires an active Top‑Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] at time of application, current and within scope
• 5+ years of Dev Ops experience
• 5+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives
• Experience in Jira metrics reporting
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, & Ansible
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s)

• STEM degree
• Experience in Linux tools/automation and shell scripting
• Experience in Python
• Experience with Open Stack management
• Docker containerization
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment tools such as Jenkins or Git Lab
• Experience creating, executing, and troubleshooting complex, automated processes used to configure servers and/or deploy code

Working at Northrop Grumman is more than just a paycheck. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package designed to help you thrive at work and in life. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please visit our Total Rewards…