Staff DevOps Engineer (TS/SCI Poly required)

The Payload and Ground 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.

Essential Functions:

• 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:

Staff (Level 5)

• Candidate must possess an active Top Secret/SCI clearance and adjudicated polygraph at time of application to be considered
• Bachelor’s degree with 14 + years of software development experience; 12 years with a Master's; 9 years with a Ph.D.; 18+ 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• CISM, CISSP or other Security Certifications (Required in first 60 days)
• Experience creating, developing, and implementing solutions to address infrastructure and security requirements.
• Identify the needs for build automation, designing, and implementing CICD solutions.
• Build or maintain CICD building blocks and shared libraries proactively for app and development teams to enable quicker build and deployment.

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.