RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription

Northrop Grumman has an opening for a StaffDevOps Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position can be located in Huntsville, AL or Roy, UT.

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

This position's standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

What you get to do:
• Assist with the design of, as well as configure and maintain, infrastructure and/or cloud resources necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Write scripts and configurations to automate software testing, deployment, and maintenance in a manner consistent with software engineering best practices
• Proactively monitor build and deployment pipelines and infrastructure, apply patches, troubleshoot issues, and resolve errors.
• Automate infrastructure and/or cloud resource deployments and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Remediate findings from vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
• Informally mentor other staff in DevOps concepts and processes.
• Work with peers and business partners to identify workflows or processes where automation can improve efficiency and or reduce costs.
• Provide Application support, configuration, installation and troubleshooting
• Troubleshoot technical issues, identify the cause, determine possible resolutions, and remediate issues in existing applications
• Serve as Product Owner managing priorities, scope and schedule, as needed

Providing rotating 24x7 on-call support to lead the resolution of system issues and anomalies. On call rotation is subject to change, based on team size, and is currently 1 week of on-call out of every 8-12 weeks.

You'll Bring These Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree with 12 years of relevant experience; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD; or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must be a US Citizen with active Secret clearance and the ability to obtain Top Secret/SAP clearance
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within 6 months of hire
• 4 years experience with build tools (i.e., Maven, Ant, GNU make) and/or continuous integration environments (i.e., Jenkins, GitLab, Bamboo) and/or repositories (i.e. Nexus, JFROG).
• 2 years experience with Jira/Confluence in an Agile environment.
• Proficiency with Linux based software development tools.
• 4 years experience of Microsoft and Linux Red Hat operating system.
• 4 years experience with scripting languages (i.e. PERL, Python, Bash, YAML).
• 4 years of DevOps experience with container technologies in support of building and implementing CI/CD pipelines
• 4 years experience with container orchestration technologies (i.e. Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift)Experience with Virtualization Technologies
• IAT Level II certification (e.g. Security + CE) or ability to obtain within 1 month.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field of study.
• Experience as a Product Owner or other technical leadership position in an Agile environment. Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or equivalent.
• Experience with source code configuration management tools (i.e git).
• Experience with HashiCorp Packer and Vault.
• Familiarity with container hardening and SBOM
• Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner
• Proven ability to help solve problems or conflicts within teams
• Proven ability to hold team members accountable to complete work based on approved technical architecture, on schedule and within budget
• Detailed and team oriented with excellent interpersonal communication, leadership and organizational skills.
• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues

Available to support after-hours, on-call, and 24/7 coverage as required by program needs. On call rotation is subject to change, based on team size, and is currently 1 week of on-call out of every 8-12 weeks.

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Primary Level Salary Range: $152,900.00 - $253,600.00

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 candidate's 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.