Staff DevOps Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Aurora, CO

70d•$177,000 - $265,600•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join their team. This position is based in Aurora, CO. You'll be joining their 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. They have plenty of opportunities for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions. Their 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

Staff/Level 5: Bachelor’s degree with 12 + years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master's; 8 years with a PhD; or 16+ years of total experience in lieu of a 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)

Responsibilities

Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.
Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.
Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
Work closely with development teams to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.
Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.
Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.
Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.

Benefits

Relocation assistance may be available
health insurance coverage
life and disability insurance
savings plan
Company paid holidays and 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)