DevOps Engineer AHT - Northrop Grumman

OpenTalent; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a DevOps Engineer - Level 2 to join our team. This role can be based in Aurora, CO or Morrisville, NC, with a strong focus on building and automating CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure.

The position requires active Top Secret clearance, Linux administration experience, and a background in Agile development. Ideal candidates align with build, deploy, and monitoring standards and drive automation across platforms.

Qualifications

• Active security clearance (Top Secret) required or ability to obtain/maintain.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework.
• Must be able to obtain Security+ within 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve infrastructure to support rapid capability deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automated testing and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define and implement build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test coverage for CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate in an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infra management.
• Create scripts to automate provisioning and management tasks.
• Work with vendors and IT staff for issue resolution.
• Monitor and support installed systems and infrastructure.

Skills

Security clearance

CI/CD

Linux administration

Agile development

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes administration

AWS administration

Jenkins

GitLab

Bamboo

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

DynamoDB

NATS configuration

Flux

Helm

Job description

Description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is looking for a DevOps Engineer - Level 2 to augment our team. This position can be based in Aurora, CO or Morrisville, NC

Primary Responsibilities:

• 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:

• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
• Must have an active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application, current and within scope.
• United States Citizenship
• Bachelor’s degree with 2 + years of relevant experience; 0 years with a Master's
• 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:

• Active Security+
• Terraform
• Kubernetes administration
• AWS administration
• Flux
• Helm
• DynamoDB
• NATS configuration
• Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
• Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

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