RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: None
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a
DevOps Engineer . This position can be located in
Roy, UT, Huntsville, AL, or Bellevue, NE and supports the Sentinel program. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
What You'll 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.
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.
Job Qualifications: You'll Bring These Qualifications: - DevOps Engineer: 2 Years with Bachelors in Science; 1 year with Masters; N/A Year with PhD or additional 4 years in lieu of degree.
- US Citizenship with ability to obtain & maintain DoD Top Secret clearance and Special Program Access within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs
- 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).
- IAT Level II certification (e.g. Security + CE) or ability to obtain within 6 months.
- Experience with Jira/Confluence in an Agile environment.
- Proficiency with Linux based software development tools.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft and Linux Red Hat operating system.
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have: - Bachelor's degree in a STEM field of study.
- 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
- Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, Terraform, vCenter, vSphere, or similar Virtual Provisioning.
- Experience with developing CI/CD workflows and utilizing tools such as Nexus, Maven, Jira, GitLab, and Release Management
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud orchestration tools and technologies
- Experience with Podman, Buildah, Skopeo and/or other container tools and technologies
- Familiarity with branching strategies, gated commits, source-controlled management, etc.
- Familiarity with the principle of DevSecOps
- Familiarity with Atlassian Tool Suite Jira, Confluence
- Familiarity with security coding standard best practices, static and dynamic scanning tools, i.e., SonarQube, Fortify, Coverity, PCLint, etc.
- Programming and scripting experience in a UNIX environment (C , Perl, Python, Bash, Ruby, Shell, Scripts)
- Programming and scripting experience in a Windows environment
Salary Range: $77,200.00 - $128,000.00
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.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.