Sentinel Principal DevOps Engineer R10232323

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
No

CLEARANCE TYPE:
None

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 a lot of 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 is seeking a Principal Dev Ops Engineer
. This position can be located in Colorado, CO
, Huntsville, AL
, Manhattan Beach, CA or Roy, Utah and supports the Sentinel program.

• Assist with the design of, as well as configure and maintain, infrastructure and/or cloud resources necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Write scripts and configurations to automate software testing, deployment, and maintenance in a manner consistent with software engineering best practices.
• Proactively monitor build and deployment pipelines and infrastructure, apply patches, troubleshoot issues, and resolve errors.
• Automate infrastructure and/or cloud resource deployments and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Remediate findings from vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
• Informally mentor other staff in Dev Ops concepts and processes.
• Work with peers and business partners to identify workflows or processes where automation can improve efficiency and or reduce costs.
• Provide application support, configuration installation and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, identify the cause, determine possible resolutions, and remediate issues in existing applications.

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

• Must be a US citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DOD security clearance.
• Must be willing to obtain and maintain Special Program Access (SAP).
• Experience with build tools (i.e., Maven, Ant, GNU make) and/or continuous integration environments (i.e., Jenkins, Git Lab, Bamboo) and/or repositories (e.g. Nexus, JFROG) in a Linux environment.
• 3 years experience with Jira/Confluence in an Agile environment.
• 5 years experience with Microsoft and Linux Red Hat operating system.
• 5 years experience with scripting languages (i.e. PERL, Python, Bash, YAML).
• 3 years experience with Kubernetes implementation and Day 2 Operations in a CI/CD environment.
• 3 years experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, Terraform, vCenter, vSphere, or similar Virtual Provisioning.
• 3 years experience with container technologies.
• 5 Years experience with Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field of study; 3 Years with Masters; 1 Years with PhD; or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field of study.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or equivalent.
• Experience with source code configuration management tools (e.g., git).
• Experience with Hashi Corp Packer and Vault.
• Familiarity with container hardening and SBOM.
• IAT II certification (e.g., Security+ CE) or ability to obtain within 6 months.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues.

Primary Level Salary Range: $98,400.00 - $

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 and certain other restricted positions.