Sentinel DevOps Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Northrop Grumman has an opening for a Staff Dev Ops Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position can be located in Huntsville, AL or Roy, UT
.

• 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.
• Serve as Product Owner managing priorities, scope and schedule, as needed.

Providing rotating 24x7 on-call support to lead the resolution of system issues and anomalies. On call rotation is subject to change, based on team size, and is currently 1 week of on-call out of every 8-12 weeks.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 12 years of relevant experience; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD; or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must be a US Citizen with active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain Top Secret/SAP clearance.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within 6 months of hire.
• 4 years experience with build tools (i.e., Maven, Ant, GNU make) and/or continuous integration environments (i.e., Jenkins, Git Lab, Bamboo) and/or repositories (i.e. Nexus, JFROG).
• 2 years experience with Jira/Confluence in an Agile environment.
• Proficiency with Linux based software development tools.
• 4 years experience of Microsoft and Linux Red Hat operating system.
• 4 years experience with scripting languages (i.e. PERL, Python, Bash, YAML).
• 4 years of Dev Ops experience with container technologies in support of building and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• 4 years experience with container orchestration technologies (i.e., Kubernetes, Docker, Open Shift);
  Experience with Virtualization Technologies.
• IAT Level II certification (e.g. Security + CE) or ability to obtain within 1 month.

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field of study.
• Experience as a Product Owner or other technical leadership position in an Agile environment. Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or equivalent.
• Experience with source code configuration management tools (i.e git).
• Experience with Hashi Corp Packer and Vault.
• Familiarity with container hardening and SBOM.
• Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner.
• Proven ability to help solve problems or conflicts within teams.
• Proven ability to hold team members accountable to complete work based on…