DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer - Position qualifies for sign-on bonus starting at $5k

Northrop Grumman • Aurora, CO

3d • $87,600 - $171,000

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is hiring an experienced DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer. The position can be based in Aurora, Colorado; Morrisville, North Carolina; or Sacramento, California, and may be staffed at Level 2 or Principal level depending on qualifications. The role plans and evolves processes and infrastructure supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment, and works as part of an Agile development team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management. An active Top Secret clearance and CI Polygraph are required at application, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access. The position qualifies for a sign-on bonus starting at $5,000; relocation assistance may be available.

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at the time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
• Active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at the time of application, current and within scope.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Level 2: Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and 0 years of experience; 4 additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
• Level 3 / Principal: Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and 3 years of experience; 4 additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification.
• Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework.

Nice To Haves

• Terraform experience.
• Ansible experience.
• CloudFormation experience.
• Azure Bicep/ARM templates experience.
• Pulumi experience.
• OpenTufo experience.
• Kubernetes administration experience.
• AWS administration experience.
• Flux experience.
• Helm experience.
• DynamoDB experience.
• NATS configuration experience.
• Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) experience.
• Jenkins, GitLab, or Bamboo experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines using automation, test-driven development tools, and continuous integration/test frameworks.
• Define and implement program standards for build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring.
• Ensure implementation of Software Configuration Management, code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for CI/CD pipelines.
• Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.
• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CI/CD tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
• Create scripts or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
• Work closely with development teams to create automated continuous integration and continuous delivery systems.
• Work with vendors and other IT personnel to resolve problems.
• Monitor and support installed systems and infrastructure.
• Develop custom scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce human intervention.
• Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
• Oversee security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with developers.

Benefits

• Sign-on bonus starting at $5,000.
• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business.
• Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
• Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level