DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4

Northrop Grumman•Morrisville, NC

13h•Onsite

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. 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. This DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4 role will sit in our Morrisville, NC site. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work . This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off. In this job, you will: 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. This position is contingent upon clearance verification and transfer to the NG sponsored program as well as continued ability to maintain required clearance level.

Requirements

Requires an active Top-Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [ TS/SCI ] AND an adjudicated Counterintelligence polygraph ( CI Poly ) at time of application
Level 3 : (Principal level) Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of software development experience
An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor’s
Master’s degree with 3 years of software development experience
PhD with 1 year of software development experience
Level 4 : (Senior Principal level) Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of software development experience
An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor’s
Master’s degree with 6 years of software development experience
PhD with 4 years of software development experience
Either must hold a current CompTIA Security+ (Sec+) certification, or if do not possess must be able to obtain a CompTIA Security+ (Sec+) certification within 6 months of start date
Experience with Linux administration or related operating systems
Experience in an Agile software development framework
Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualifications

Nice To Haves

Terraform
Kubernetes administration
AWS administration
Flux
Helm
DynamoDB
NATS configuration
Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

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.