Senior DevOps Engineer – Onsite (Dulles, VA), TS/SCI

Northrop Grumman Corp.; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 114,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Dulles, VA is seeking a DevOps Engineer at Level 3 or 4 to define the art of the possible for mission-critical software powering satellites and ground systems. This 100% onsite role requires TS/SCI clearance, cloud and IaC expertise, and leadership to mentor teammates while delivering secure, automated CI/CD pipelines in OpenStack and Kubernetes.

Join a culture focused on innovation and a comprehensive benefits package with opportunities to expand skills across DevOps

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of professional experience - OR - Master's degree with 3 years of professional experience - OR - PhD with 1 year of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree
• Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] at time of application, current and within scope
• 3+ years of DevOps experience
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives
• Experience in Jira metrics reporting
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, & Ansible
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s)

Responsibilities

• Automate cloud native technologies, deploy applications, and provision critical infrastructure
• Work with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology
• Work within the OpenStack cloud ecosystem to configure and deploy optimized infrastructure
• Ensure monitoring and health of the resources deployed via Nagios or other enterprise management solutions
• Document procedures used during deployment cycles
• Experience with operational monitoring tools
• Work with the fellow DevOps team and play a mentoring role to cross-train and grow technical talent across DevOps team and assist in troubleshooting tasks
• Implement clean and maintainable infrastructure-as-code that adheres to industry best practices, terraform
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

DevOps

Technical leadership

Jira metrics reporting

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Education

STEM degree

Tools

OpenStack

Docker

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Northrop Grumman in Dulles, VA is seeking a DevOps Engineer at Level 3 or 4 to define the art of the possible for mission-critical software powering satellites and ground systems. This 100% onsite role requires TS/SCI clearance, cloud and IaC expertise, and leadership to mentor teammates while delivering secure, automated CI/CD pipelines in OpenStack and Kubernetes.

Join a culture focused on innovation and a comprehensive benefits package with opportunities to expand skills across DevOps