Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer (AHT) - Position qualifies for sign-on bonus starting at $7k

Northrop Grumman•Aurora, CO

3d•$135,800 - $213,400

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is seeking an experienced Sr. Principal Cloud Engineer for a role based in Aurora, Colorado; Morrisville, North Carolina; or Sacramento, California. The position plans and evolves processes and infrastructure to support rapid capability maturation and deployment. It develops and maintains automated delivery environments and CI/CD pipelines, and works within an Agile development team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management. The role also supports installed systems and infrastructure, collaborates with vendors and IT personnel to resolve problems, and contributes to information and operational support system design. An active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance and CI Polygraph are required at application; the selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access. Relocation assistance may be available. The position offers a sign-on bonus starting at $7,500.

Requirements

Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at application, current and within scope, with ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
Active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at application, current and within scope.
U.S. citizenship.
Bachelor’s degree and 8 or more years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree and 6 or more years; or a Ph.D. and 4 or more years; alternatively, 4 additional years of experience in lieu of 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.
Experience with at least one of the listed preferred qualifications.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for 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 builds, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring.
Ensure CI/CD pipelines implement Software Configuration Management, code quality, code coverage, and automated testing.
Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-to-end automation for deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.
Build and configure delivery environments that support CI/CD tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
Create scripts or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
Work with development teams to create automated continuous integration and continuous delivery systems.
Collaborate with vendors and IT personnel to resolve problems.
Monitor and support installed systems and infrastructure.
Develop custom scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce manual 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 $7,500
Relocation assistance may be available
Health insurance coverage
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Savings plan
Company-paid holidays
Paid time off for vacation and/or personal business
Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus, depending on the position

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