RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
DescriptionNorthrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS), Huntsville, ALis currently seeking a Principal or Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer. The successful candidates will demonstrate a broad skill set balanced between interpersonal and technical capabilities achieving sustainable quality products. The selected candidates will participate in the entire software development lifecycle.
This role is intended for engineers performing in aDevOps capacity, working closely with software engineers, cyber operators, and platform teams to develop, secure, deploy, and sustain mission applications and supporting infrastructure. The selected candidate will support CI/CD pipeline implementation and sustainment, containerized application environments, system administration, operational support, and field support representative-type functions as needed to maintain mission effectiveness. The candidates will work closely with other software and systems engineers accomplishing the following:
Basic Qualifications
- Principal Software Engineer: BS or higher degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) or related field with 5+ years of experience, or Masters degree in STEM with 3 years of experience OR
- Senior Principal Software Engineer: BS or higher degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM) or related field with 8+ years of experience, or Masters degree in STEM with 6 years of experience
- Active U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Security Clearance
- Experience with configuration and maintenance of DevOps Infrastructure as Code tools and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI or similar
- Experience with OCI-compliant container technology and tools such as Podman or Docker
- Experience managing and troubleshooting containerized workloads, specifically using Kubernetes or Docker
- Experience with Linux Operating System, including virtual machines, storage and networking
- Experience with distributed revision control systems such as Git
- Experience supporting system reliability, monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting in production environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with scripting languages such asPython,Bash, orGoto improve platform efficiency
- Kubernetesrelated certifications such asCKA(Certified Kubernetes Administrator),CKAD(Certified Kubernetes Application Developer),CKS(Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist), orKCSP(Kubernetes Certified Service Provider)
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
- Experience with the configuration and administration ofCNCF toolssuch asHarbor,ArgoCD,Grafana,Prometheus, andHelm
- Experience implementing security as code , including automated vulnerability scanning and compliancedriven infrastructure
- Experience working in anAgile environmentand familiarity with Agile principles and practices
- Experience with project / issue tracking software such asJiraandConfluence
- Demonstrated understanding ofservice based architectures
- Demonstrated experience deploying and supporting applications in cloud or hybrid environments
Primary Level Salary Range: $98,400.00 - $147,600.00
Secondary Level Salary Range: $122,800.00 - $184,200.00
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidates experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
