RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Polygraph
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
DescriptionNorthrop Grumman's Space Systems is looking for an experienced
Staff DevOps Engineer to augment our team.
This position can be based in Aurora, CO OR Morrisville, NC (Salary range displayed is for Aurora, CO)
Essential Functions:- 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.
Basic Qualifications:- Candidate must possess an active Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time application AND CI Polygraph to be considered
- Bachelor's degree with 12 + years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master's; 8 years with a PhD; or 16+ years of total experience in lieu of a degree
- Security+, not needed to start, but must be able to obtain within 6 months
- Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
- Experience in an Agile software development framework
- Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:- Terraform
- Kubernetes administration
- AWS administration
- Flux
- Helm
- DynamoDB
- NATS configuration
- Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
- Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo
Primary Level Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $265,600.00
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.
