DevOps Engineer

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: PolygraphTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time DescriptionAt 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 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. Northrop Grumman's Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams.
This DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4 role will sit in our Morrisville, NC site.
This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. 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.
Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.
Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.
Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.
This requisition may be filled at either a level 3 (Principal) or a level 4 (Sr Principal), depending on the candidate's experience as laid out in the basic qualifications detailed below as well as the interview assessment.
Requires an active Top-Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] AND an adjudicated Counterintelligence polygraph (CI Poly) at time of application
Level 3: (Principal level)
Bachelor's degree with 5 years of software development experience
An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor's
Master's degree with 3 years of software development experience
PhD with 1 year of software development experience
Bachelor's degree with 8 years of software development experience
An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor's
Master's degree with 6 years of software development experience
PhD with 4 years of software development experience
Experience with Linux administration or related operating systems
Experience in an Agile software development framework
AWS administration
NATS configuration
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package designed to help you thrive at work and in life. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please visit our Total Rewards site.
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. 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. 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.