Staff Cloud Engineer - Position qualifies for sign-on bonus starting at $10k

Northrop Grumman; South Dakota; Vor Ort; USD 169.000 - 266.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Zusammenfassung

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer. This key role can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA, and requires active Top Secret clearance with SCI access.

You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and secure software supply chains in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. The position offers relocation assistance, a sign-on bonus, and a competitive salary range of $169,000 to $265,600 per year.

Qualifikationen

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI access.
• CI Polygraph at time of application.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience (or 10 years with a Master’s; 8 years with a PhD; or 4 years additional experience in lieu of degree).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning tech.
• Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification.
• Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience in Agile software development.

Aufgaben

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automation, tests, and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Work on an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infra management.

Kenntnisse

Top Secret clearance

CI Polygraph

Bachelor’s degree required

Infrastructure as code

Agile development

DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II

Linux administration

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

AWS

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

Grafana/Prometheus/Loki

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Jobbeschreibung

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: No

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.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer. 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

This position offers a sign on bonus starting at $10,000.

Basic Qualifications

• United States Citizenship
• 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 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification
• Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework
• Experience with at least 1 of the preferred qualifications below

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform
• Ansible
• CloudFormation
• Azure Bicep/ARM templates
• Pulumi
• OpenTofu
• Kubernetes administration
• AWS administration
• Flux
• Helm
• DynamoDB
• NATS configuration
• Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
• Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

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.