Infrastructure Lead – Staff DevOps Engineer

Northrop Grumman; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Intelligence Systems organization seeks a seasoned DevSecOps leader to advance automation, CI/CD, and secure cloud architectures. The role is based in Aurora, Colorado or Morrisville, NC, with Top Secret clearance required and a path to SCI access.

You will drive infrastructure automation, enforce security best practices, and mentor engineering teams across projects. The ideal candidate has a strong DevSecOps toolkit background, agile delivery experience, and a proven ability

Qualifications

• US citizenship required.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, with SCI access.
• Willing to pass a polygraph.
• Security+ certification within 60 days.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of software development; more with advanced degrees.
• DevSecOps experience with Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, Terraform, Git or similar.
• Familiarity with API/Container security and AWS cloud architecture.
• Proven leadership of engineering or DevOps teams.
• Experience with Agile processes and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and evolution of processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation.
• Integrate development pipelines with automated test frameworks and CI/CD.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Guide Agile development teams to deliver automated deployment and infrastructure management.

Skills

Security

Team leadership

Agile

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ansible

Jenkins

Jira

Terraform

Git

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

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.

The Intelligence Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

This position can be based in Aurora, Colorado or Morrisville, North Carolina.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and evolution of processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Lead the integration of 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.
• Lead the Agile development team to deliver end-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.
• Lead the building and configuration of delivery environments supporting CI/CD tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
• Lead the creations of 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
• Lead the monitoring and support for all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Lead the development of custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Lead the design of information and operational support systems.
• Lead the installation, configuration, testing and maintenance of the operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Lead the evaluation of application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.

Basic Qualifications

• United States Citizenship required
• 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 the willingness to submit and successfully pass a polygraph.
• Willing and able to obtain Security+ certification within 60 days
• Bachelor’s degree with 12 + years of software development experience; 10 years with a Master’s; 8 years with a Ph.D.; 16+ years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Comprehensive technical expertise in a variety of DevSecOps toolkits, including Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, Terraform, Git/Version Control Software, or comparable technologies
• Ability to express technical information clearly at different organizational levels
• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and AWS Cloud architecture, security, and management
• Experience successfully leading teams
• Experience with Agile processes and procedures

Preferred Qualifications

• CISM, CISSP or other Security Certifications (Required in first 60 days)
• Favorably adjudicated CI Polygraph
• Experience creating, developing, and implementing solutions to address infrastructure and security requirements.
• Experience identifying the needs for building automation, designing, and implementing CI/CD solutions.
• Build or maintain CI/CD building blocks and shared libraries proactively for app and development teams to enable quicker build and deployment.
• Successful experience leading a team of DevOps Engineers and/or System Administrators
• Experience with Software development and deploying software into a cloud environment
• Experience with successfully maintaining and updating an operational software baseline

Primary Level Salary Range: $169,000.00 – $265,600.00

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.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, colour, 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. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Job Category: Engineering