Sentinel Principal DevOps Engineer - R10232119

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
Yes. Clearance type:
Secret.

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.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible.

With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal Dev Ops Engineer. This position can be located in Roy, Utah or Huntsville, AL and will support the Sentinel program.

• 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.

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.
• Provide rotating 24×7 on‑call support to lead the resolution of system issues and anomalies. The on‑call rotation is currently one week out of every 8‑12 weeks.

• Principal Dev Ops Engineer: 5 years experience with Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of study; 3 years with Master’s; 1 year with PhD; or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active U.S. Government DoD security clearance (Secret, Top Secret; etc.) with a re‑investigation within the last 6 years.
• Must have the ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
• Experience with build tools (e.g., Maven, Ant, GNU make) and/or continuous integration environments (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab, Bamboo) and/or repositories (i.e. Nexus, JFROG) in a Linux environment.
• 5 years experience with Microsoft Windows and Linux Red Hat operating systems.
• 5 years experience with…