Lead DevOps Engineer

Northrop Grumman UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working schedules

Flexible Benefits Package

Employee Incentive Programme

Career Development

Job summary

Northrop Grumman UK is seeking DevOps Engineers to design, build and maintain mission critical systems with a focus on automation, CI/CD and cloud readiness. You will work with Architects, Developers and Testers, ensuring reliability and agility across the SDLC.

The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and adopting best-fit tools within a flexible, hybrid work environment. Experience across AWS/Azure/GCP and container platforms is valued.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Automation using scripting (Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Experience with virtualised / containerised systems (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with Atlassian tooling (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket).
• Strong agile background and ability to work across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain mission critical systems with stakeholders.
• Automating deployment, operation and maintenance using IaC and config management tools.
• Lead decisions on best-fit tools to solve complex project problems.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stability and quality across the SDLC.
• Continuously expand skills and certifications.
• Migration activities to cloud readiness and microservices architecture.

Skills

CI/CD experience

Agile

Communication

Tools

Jenkins

Concourse

Maven

Bamboo

Ansible

Bash

PowerShell

Puppet

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Atlassian Suite

Job description

UK CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

DevOps Engineers are critical to the success of our market leading and agile delivery teams across Northrop Grumman.

Collaborating with Architects, Software Developers and Testers, we align complex systems to exacting standards and deliver mission value that transforms client systems, whilst delivering improvement in reliability, cost and organisational agility.

Your Benefits

• Flexible working schedules - we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have.
• Flexible Benefits Package – choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
• Employee Incentive Programme – exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel
• Career Development – opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities

Your Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to design, build and maintain mission critical systems
• Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
• Lead and drive decisions to implement best fit tools to solve complex project problems effectively.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the SDLC (software development life cycle).
• Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications
• Migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud ready and implement micro services architecture.

Your Experience

• Experience of creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo
• Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python;
• Experience of administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare or Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift;
• Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaborating tooling e.g. Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
• Strong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.
• Cloud experience and awareness in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• Platforms Experience of designing, deploying and administering Linux or Unix based solutions would be advantageous e.g. using virtualisation, containerisation, Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with performance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana

Your Future Team

“As a Lead DevOps Engineer I implement and improve end to end CI/CD pipelines to promote stable and efficient environments throughout the SDLC. Using multiple toolsets to automate repetitive processes, monitor and analyse system performances and enable projects to focus on getting the best value out of their tools. I document and share knowledge to help projects grow and learn from previous issues, mentoring junior colleagues to follow best practices.”

Craig, Lead DevOps Engineer, National Security Solutions @ Northrop Grumman UK

Joining the Infrastructure Discipline gives a great variety of opportunity, working with the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems.

Our focused and flexible Infrastructure Team consists of industry leading practitioners in engineering and systems administration across all specialisms and experience. We work with multiple customer sets and system classifications, on both public cloud and on premise. Collaboratively we deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems, providing our team a broad range of experiences from which to develop new skills and learning across the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets.

Diversity is at the heart of our success. Our team share experience, knowledge and new thinking gained from a wide range of backgrounds perspective, culture, gender, race, age and many other elements across several industries. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from communities currently under-represented within our industry. We treat everyone with respect and foster safe and inclusive environments.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.