Software​/DevOps Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top Secret

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.

The Payload and Ground Systems, a division within Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, redefining engineering capabilities, and driving advances in various sciences through cutting-edge technology. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

Come be a part of our mission!

We are looking for experienced Staff Software engineers to augment our team.

Successful candidates will be experienced with creating and maintaining Dev Sec Ops  pipelines, have Docker and Kubernetes experience. Dev Ops experience in staging environments, maintaining values files configurations, writes configuration/installation documentation and have experience with JAVA development.

The Dev Ops engineer plans and evolves processes and infrastructure to execute programs which support rapid maturation and deployment of capability while sustaining a stable security posture and incorporating ongoing stakeholder feedback. Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks. Implements provisioning and deployment techniques via packaging, and componentizing. Functions with agile principles to execute efficiently in an environment of continuous feedback.

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

About our organization: As a engineer, youll be joining our growing Aurora Software and Digital Engineering department which has 200+ Software Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer, Systems Administrator, Database Administrator, and Network Engineer peers from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects. Software Engineers frequently get into informal (example: Subject Matter Expert) and formal technical leadership roles within their programs, as applicable and per interest.

We have plenty of opportunity for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions. Our Software Department is part of a larger organization that includes Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test staff as well as a Hardware Engineering unit. This larger organization influences cross-program collaboration, professional development and training, as well as engagement and inclusion activities such as lunch-n-learns, campus events, and leadership mixers.

Basic Qualifications:

• Staff level 5:
  Bachelors degree in a STEM discipline with 12+ years of relative experience; master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 10+ years of relative experience;
  PhD + 8 years of relative experience. An additional 4 years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance required at time of application with a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)
• Successful candidate will perform the responsibilities of a part-time JAVA developer and part-time Dev Sec Ops  engineer.
• Successful candidates will be experienced with creating and maintaining Dev Sec Ops  pipelines, have Docker and Kubernetes…