Northrop Grumman · 4 days ago
DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4 - R10214965
Northrop Grumman is a leader in aerospace and defense technology, seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Space Sector team. The role involves planning and evolving processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment, as well as integrating development pipelines and ensuring effective software configuration management.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
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
Qualification
Required
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
Level 4: (Senior Principal level) + 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
Either must hold a current CompTIA Security+ (Sec+) certification, or if do not possess must be able to obtain a CompTIA Security+ (Sec+) certification within 6 months of start date
Experience with Linux administration or related operating systems
Experience in an Agile software development framework
Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualifications
Preferred
Terraform
Kubernetes administration
AWS administration
Flux
Helm
DynamoDB
NATS configuration
Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
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