DevOps Engineer - Level 3

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Potential bonuses

Job summary

Northrop Grumman seeks a talented Principal DevOps Engineer to join its engineering team in Boulder, Colorado. This role involves implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, collaborating across multidisciplinary engineering teams, and providing technical solutions to complex challenges.

Applicants must have a Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree with 3 years of experience, along with an active U.S. Government secret security clearance.

The position offers a salary range of $114,000.00 - $171,000.00 and includes additional benefits such as health insurance, paid time off, and potential bonuses.

Qualifications

• 5+ years related experience or 3+ years with a master's degree.
• Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
• Experience with modern C++ and development tools.

Responsibilities

• Implement CI/CD pipelines.
• Coordinate cross-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Provide technical solutions to complex problems.

Skills

C++ (C++17, C++20)

Object-Oriented Programming

Linux Development

Cross-platform Development

Git

Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence)

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Job description

Relocation assistance: No relocation assistance available.

Clearance required for start: Yes. Clearance type: Secret.

Travel: Yes, up to 10% of the time.

Job Overview

Northrop Grumman seeks a talented, self-motivated, energetic professional to join the engineering team in Boulder, Colorado as a Principal DevOps Engineer. This position is located in Boulder, CO.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Coordinate activities across multidisciplinary engineering teams, raise issues at the program level, and drive complex projects to success.
• Analyze system capabilities for output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls.
• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex difficult problems.
• Effectively communicate and present technical subjects to project and program management, other technical managers, and customers.
• Manage technical dependencies across teams.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to identify opportunities for automation and process improvement.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years related experience, or a master's degree and 3 years related experience, or 1 year of related experience with a PhD.
• An additional 4 years of related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Applicants must have an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at the time of application and at start.
• Experience with modern C++ (C++17, C++20), development tools, IDEs and compilers.
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming.
• Experience developing in Linux environments.
• Experience developing in cross-platform (Linux/Windows) environments.
• Experience with modular software development architectures and practices with source control tools (Git, CMake, Conan, etc.).
• Experience working with Atlassian suite products (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc.).
• Familiarity with revision control, documentation, planning, and review systems like Git.
• Software development and troubleshooting in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• CompTIA Security+ (SecPlus) certification.
• Current and active DoD-issued TS/SCI clearance at application time.
• Technical leadership experience.
• Experience with Python.
• Familiarity with Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) and Electro-Optical Infrared (EOIR) sensors.
• Experience with Distributed Systems and Micro-service Architecture & Observability Tools (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, RKE2/K3S/Tanzu/Docker Swarm).
• Experience with DevOps and DevSecOps (Jenkins or Git Lab).
• Experience with container orchestration and deployment (Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Openshift, Rancher).
• Experience with containerization development (Podman or Docker).
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (Ansible).

Benefits and Compensation

• Salary range: $114,000.00 - $171,000.00.
• Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus, and long-term incentives.
• Health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Additional Information

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

EEO Statement

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 http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO.