Senior DevOps Engineer

Northrop Grumman; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is seeking candidates to join their Infrastructure Team in Gloucester. This role involves designing and maintaining mission-critical systems, automating tasks using Infrastructure as Code, and managing CI/CD pipelines. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, AWS certification, and experience with tools like Jenkins and Ansible. The company promotes a diverse and inclusive workforce and offers opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Healthcare

Dental

Life Assurance

Pension

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• AWS Certified to Practitioner or Associate level.
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Concourse.
• Experience automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain mission-critical systems.
• Automate system deployment and maintenance.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Automation

Cloud computing

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Elastic Stack

Job description

Overview

Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity to Deliver the Nation's Security. Together. 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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work as a part of a team to design, build and maintain mission critical systems
• Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
• Support the Leads to 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)
• Migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud ready and implement micro services architecture
• Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications
• Flexible working arrangements are available; discuss scheduling preferences at application stage
• Flexible Benefits Package – core benefits provided include Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension; flex benefits include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments
• Employee Incentive Programme – exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme awarded to top performers
• Career Development – ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science based subject, equivalent qualification or equivalent relevant experience
• AWS Certified to Practitioner or Associate level with experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud-based solutions
• 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 collaboration 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 with virtualization, containerisation, and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with performance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana, CheckMK

Where we work

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 customers operate in unique environments which offer new and exciting challenges every day, cultivating a place where you can learn and thrive, working alongside the best minds in industry. We promote collaboration to achieve more than we could imagine, together.