DevOps Engineer (Level 2 OR 3)

Northrop Grumman•Aurora, CO

22d

About The Position

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. The Northrop Grumman's Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer (Level 2 OR 3) to augment our team. The DevOps engineers must have an excellent understanding of common system architecture, provisioning, and administration, but also have experience with the traditional developer toolset and practices such as using source control, giving and receiving code reviews, writing unit tests, and familiarity with agile principles. Successful candidates will support daily tasks by managing the CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, monitoring system health, handling infrastructure as code. This position will be based in Aurora, CO. About our organization: You'll be joining our growing Aurora Software and Digital Engineering department which has 200+ Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Systems Administrator, Database Administrator, and Network Engineer peers from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects. DevOps Engineers frequently get into informal (example: Subject Matter Expert) and formal technical leadership roles within their programs, as applicable and per interest. We have plenty of opportunities for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions. Our department is part of a larger organization that includes Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test staff as well as a Hardware Engineering unit. This larger organization influences cross-program collaboration, professional development and training, as well as engagement and inclusion activities such as lunch-n-learns, campus events, and leadership mixers.

Requirements

Level 2: Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2+ years of relative experience; OR Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 0+ years of relative experience; An additional 4 years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
Level 3: Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of relative experience; Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 3+ years of relative experience; OR PhD with 1+ years of experience; An additional 4 years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
Active Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope poly required at time of application
Strong experience building and running containers
Strong experience with Linux Administration
Strong experience with shell scripting
Experience with git
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (gitlab or Jenkins experience is preferred)
Experience working with Kubernetes
Experience with messaging software (kafka, artemis, etc.)

Nice To Haves

Experience with Ansible
Experience with Java, python
Experience with system monitoring (E.g. Prometheus or similar)
Familiarity with computer networking
Familiarity with access control techniques (RBAC, ABAC, etc.) and software (keycloak)