Site Reliability Engineer; AHT

Relocation Assistance

Relocation assistance may be available.

No clearance required for start. Clearance type:
Top Secret.

Travel required:

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.

Site Reliability Engineers are tasked with guaranteeing the dependability of applications they don’t build, setting user-focused reliability targets, instrumenting those metrics, and developing the automation and runbooks needed to recover from failures. They work closely with development teams to embed operational quality early in the software lifecycle and assume primary responsibility for resolving production issues when they arise. Their skill set includes troubleshooting distributed systems, handling incidents, and converting those experiences into lasting reliability enhancements.

On a daily basis, the work is organized around four key areas: incident management, reducing manual toil, evaluating reliability, and enabling platform capabilities.

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2 years of related experience or a master’s degree with 0 years of experience (Level
  2).
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5 years of related experience or a master’s degree with 3 years of experience (Level
  3).
• Ability to obtain a Department of War Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance (TS/SCI).
• Obtain IAT Level II certification such as SecurityX (formerly CASP+) or Security+ within 90 days.
• Minimum of three years of experience in Systems Administration.
• Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Demonstrated understanding of systems thinking, including the ability to identify interdependencies, assess potential blast radius, and analyze how multiple components can fail together to ensure resilient infrastructure.
• Basic knowledge of observability fundamentals, encompassing more than the three core signals (logs, metrics, traces) and the ability to select, implement, and leverage telemetry data to optimize services and enhance engineering productivity.
• Fundamental software engineering skills, including automation scripts, APIs, proficiency with Git branching and workflow conventions, and active participation in peer code reviews.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.

• Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Git Ops, disaster recovery, capacity planning.
• OTel standards, Grafana/Perses, Tempo, Clickhouse, Victoria Metrics.
• Python, Bash, Power Shell scripting experience.
• Dev Ops architecture leveraging automation, containerization, and Git Ops using Git Lab/Jenkins/ArgoCD for CI/CD, Kubernetes for orchestration, Istio for service mesh, and Nexus/Harbor for artifact repositories.
• SRE Certifications from The Dev Ops Institute, AWS Solution Architect, or similar.
• Dashboard quality, alert design, anomaly detection.

Primary Level Salary Range: $75,800.00 - $. Secondary Level Salary Range: $94,200.00 - $. These ranges are guidelines; remuneration may vary based on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions.

Benefit package includes health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonuses, annual bonuses, and long-term incentives for certain positions.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit  U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance.