DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4 AHT
About The Position
Northrop Grumman's Space Sector is seeking a DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4 to join their collaborative teams. This role is crucial for missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. The position is 100% onsite and requires working in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) environment. The engineer will enable rapid, reliable delivery of mission-critical software for satellites, ground stations, and launch-vehicle controls. This involves designing and operating secure, automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code on hardened cloud and on-premise environments, ensuring compliance with aerospace standards, stringent safety requirements, and real-time telemetry monitoring. The role bridges software development with orbital-operations teams to maintain high availability and performance for space missions. This position can be filled at either a Level 3 or Level 4.
Requirements
- Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] at time of application, current and within scope
- 3+ years of DevOps experience (for Level 3)
- 3+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives (for Level 3)
- Experience in Jira metrics reporting (for Level 3)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, & Ansible (for Level 3)
- Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) (for Level 3)
- 5+ years of DevOps experience (for Level 4)
- 5+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives (for Level 4)
- Experience in Jira metrics reporting (for Level 4)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, & Ansible (for Level 4)
- Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) (for Level 4)
Nice To Haves
- STEM degree
- Experience in Linux tools/automation and shell scripting
- Experience in Python
- Experience with OpenStack management
- Docker containerization
- Experience with continuous integration/deployment tools such as Jenkins or GitLab
- Experience creating, executing, and troubleshooting complex, automated processes used to configure servers and/or deploy code
Responsibilities
- 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 OpenStack 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
- Work with the fellow DevOps team and play a mentoring role to cross-train and grow technical talent across DevOps team and assist in troubleshooting tasks
- Implement clean and maintainable infrastructure-as-code that adheres to industry best practices, terraform
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available
- health insurance coverage
- life and disability insurance
- savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- overtime
- shift differential
- discretionary bonus
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
