Staff Cloud Engineer - Position qualifies for sign-on bonus starting at $10k

Northrop Grumman•Morrisville, CO

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer. The position may be based in Aurora, Colorado; Morrisville, North Carolina; or Sacramento, California. The engineer will plan and evolve processes and infrastructure supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment, and work with an Agile development team to deliver automated deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management. The role includes building and configuring CI/CD delivery environments, automating infrastructure provisioning and management, and establishing build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards. The position requires an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance and active CI Polygraph at application, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access. A sign-on bonus starting at $10,000 is offered. Relocation assistance may be available. Travel is not required.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at the time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
Active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at the time of application, current and within scope.
Bachelor’s degree and 12 or more years of relevant experience; or 10 years with a master’s degree; or 8 years with a Ph.D.; or 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 to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
Integrate development pipelines using automation, test-driven development tools, and continuous integration and test frameworks.
Define and implement build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
Ensure implementation of Software Configuration Management, code quality, and code coverage through automated testing for CI/CD pipelines.
Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.
Build and configure delivery environments supporting CI/CD tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
Create scripts and templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
Work with development teams to create an automated continuous integration and continuous delivery system.
Work with vendors and other IT personnel to resolve problems.
Monitor and support installed systems and infrastructure.
Develop custom scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce human intervention in 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 security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with developers.

Benefits

Sign-on bonus starting at $10,000.
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.
Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

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