Staff Cloud Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corporation; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corporation is seeking a Staff Cloud and DevOps Engineer to advance automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure management across multiple projects in the Space Systems sector. The role requires active Top Secret clearance and CI polygraph, with work location options in Sacramento, Aurora, or Morrisville.

You will design and implement scalable deployment pipelines, integrate automated testing, and collaborate with development teams to reduce manual intervention while improving system

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required to be considered.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI access.
• Active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master’s; 8 years with a PhD.
• Must have all of the following: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Security+ certification.
• Linux administration experience.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to support rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with test-driven development tools and CI/CT frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Linux administration

Agile development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Security+

Job description

Description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: No

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced Staff Cloud and DevOps Engineer to augment our team. This position can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA.

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:

• United States Citizenship is required to be considered.
• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12 + years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master's; 8 years with a PhD; or 9 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must have all of the following: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Current Security+, certification
• Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework

Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualificat

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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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.

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