Sr Principal DevOps Engineer (*Active TS/SCI & adj poly required) - R10184820

Northrop Grumman; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 124,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering team as a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer, where your skills will contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of technology. In this dynamic role, you'll lead a talented team, managing CI/CD pipelines and ensuring security across environments. With a focus on innovation and collaboration, you'll tackle complex challenges while working on cutting-edge systems that impact lives globally. This is an opportunity to be part of a culture that values curiosity and creativity, all while making history in the aerospace and defense sectors. If you have a passion for technology and leadership, this position is your chance to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Work-life balance

Education assistance

Paid time off

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Company paid holidays

Qualifications

• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance.
• 8+ years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's in STEM required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a DevOps team supporting a CI/CD pipeline in multiple environments.
• Automate configuration maintenance and manage security vulnerabilities.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud Computing

Team Leadership

Security Vulnerabilities Management

Agile Principles

Automation Scripting

Education

Bachelor's in STEM

Master's in STEM

Ph.D. in STEM

Associate's Degree

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Tools

Gitlab

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes (K8s)

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Sr Principal DevOps Engineer (*Active TS/SCI & adj poly required)

Requisition ID: R10184820

• Location: Morrisville, North Carolina, United States of America | Aurora, Colorado, United States of America + 1 more
• Clearance Type: Polygraph
• Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
• Shift: Days (United States of America)
• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
• Positions Available: 1

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 Payload and Ground Systems, a division within Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, redefining engineering capabilities, and driving advances in various sciences through cutting-edge technology. 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. Be a part of our mission!

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) seeks to find a senior-level DevOps Engineer/Team Lead in the Payload and Ground Systems Division Engineering organization supporting the Integrated National Systems (INS) Business Unit (BU) to support a Ground program.

What you’ll get to do: As a DevOps Engineer on this team, you will lead a DevOps team supporting a CI/CD pipeline in multiple environments. You will also verify and validate requirements for the environments ensuring ATO and maintaining security vulnerabilities software for a Ground Segment. In this role, you will be supporting program leadership and the customer. Ultimately, you will support the program through maturity and milestones to achieve the mission, ensuring everything is synchronized.

We have multiple DevOps Engineering positions across the Ground program, on contract to deliver the ground segment for a restricted space program. This work will span DevOps, CM processes, ATO, maintaining security vulnerabilities, and system infrastructure. We have anticipated future growth to deliver additional ground capabilities.

The successful candidate will have broad DevOps experience to include Cloud technologies and team leadership skills. They will have the ability to manage changes and present options for managing scope and dependencies to the technical and management teams in concise briefings. The candidate is expected to operate independently with little oversight in a dynamic environment and to be highly self-motivated. The ideal candidate is a leader who excels in keeping the program management and the customer informed. The individual is expected to handle diverse problems with efficiency, finding unique solutions, while working in a very collaborative and fast paced environment that continues to grow.

Job responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:

1. Clearly translating technical solutions to upper management and the customer
2. Write/edit scripts (INF as code) to aid with configuration maintenance of Gitlab/Gitlab-ci
3. Automate configuration maintenance (CM) process and support CM for elements (automation scripting or manual until automated)
4. Maintain security vulnerabilities software. Review scans, process to automate these issues, and make updates to libraries. Make recommendations to resolve deficiencies in code and/or implement recommendations.
5. Plans and evolves processes and infrastructure to execute programs which support rapid maturation and deployment of capability while sustaining a stable security posture and incorporating ongoing stakeholder feedback.
6. Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.
7. Implements provisioning and deployment techniques via packaging, componentizing, or Cloud distribution.
8. Functions with agile principles to execute efficiently in an environment of continuous feedback.
9. Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

This position will be located at our Morrisville, NC, or Aurora CO sites. (Compensation varies per location).This position requires being onsite and does not support remote or hybrid work.

Basic Qualifications

Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance AND a favorably adjudicated polygraph at time of application

Minimum years of experience needed to be considered:

• 8 Years of relevant experience with a completed Bachelor's (STEM)
• 6 Years of relevant experience with a completed Masters's (STEM)
• 4 Years of relevant experience with a completed Ph.D. (STEM)
• 10 Years of relevant experience with a completed associate’s degree
• 12 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a completed degree (High School diploma or equivalent is required)

Must have above minimum experience on the below:

• Must hold a current CompTIA Security+ Certification or equivalent IAT Level 2 certification
• Cloud Computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading teams
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with Ansible
• Experience with K8s
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with Gitlab
• Experience with TerraForm
• Experience with Helm

To better support our employee’s work/life balance, most NG worksites support a 9/80 work schedule. The 9/80 schedule allows employees to work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday and take every other Friday off. This schedule or other work-hour flexibility options can be determined upon hire.

With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on Earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today. #definingpossible

Salary Range: $124,900 - $206,000

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.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA 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.

• Be part of a culture that thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work.
• Use your skills to build and deliver innovative tech solutions that protect the world and shape a better future.
• Enjoy benefits like work-life balance, education assistance and paid time off.