DevOps Engineer – Level 5

Dev Ops Engineer – Level 5

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.

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman's Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a Dev Ops Engineer – Level 5, this role will sit in our Dulles, VA location. In this role, you'll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one.

This work will primarily be performed in a SCIF environment. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Job Responsibilities In This Role You Will:

• Automate cloud native technologies, deploy applications, and provision critical infrastructure
• Work with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology
• Work within the Open Stack cloud ecosystem to configure and deploy optimized infrastructure
• Ensure monitoring and health of the resources deployed via Nagios or other enterprise management solutions
• Document procedures used during deployment cycles
• Experience with operational monitoring tools
• Work with the fellow Dev Ops team and play a mentoring role to cross-train and grow technical talent across Dev Ops team and assist in troubleshooting tasks
• Implement clean and maintainable infrastructure-as-code that adheres to industry best practices, terraform

This work will primarily be performed in a SCIF environment. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

Basic Qualifications (Must Have/Required To Be Considered):

• Requires an active/current U.S. Government Top-Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance [TS/SCI] at time of application [US citizenship required]

Level 5 : (Staff level)

• Bachelor's degree with 12 years of relevant experience
• An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor's
• Master's degree with 10 years of relevant experience
• PhD with 8 years of relevant experience
• 8+ years of Dev Ops experience
• 8+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives
• Experience in Jira metrics reporting
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, & Ansible
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s)

Preferred Qualifications (Not Required, But Nice To Have):

• STEM degree
• Experience in Linux tools/automation and shell scripting
• Experience in Python
• Experience with Open Stack management
• Docker containerization
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment tools such as Jenkins or Git Lab
• Experience creating, executing, and troubleshooting complex, automated processes used to configure servers and/or deploy code

If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!