Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity to Deliver the Nation’s Security. Together.
Collaborating with Architects, Software Developers and Testers, we align complex systems to exacting standards and deliver mission value that transforms client systems, whilst delivering improvement in reliability, cost and organisational agility.
Your Responsibilities:
- Work as a part of a team to design, build and maintain mission critical systems
- Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
- Support the Leads to drive decisions to implement best fit tools to solve complex project problems effectively.
- Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the SDLC (software development life cycle).
- Migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud ready and implement micro services architecture.
- Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications
Your Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science based subject, equivalent qualification or equivalent relevant experience;
- Amazon Web Services Certified to Practitioner or Associate level with experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud based solutions;
- Experience of creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo
- Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python;
- Experience of administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare or Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift;
- Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaborating tooling e.g. Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
- Strong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.
- Cloud experience and awareness in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
- Platforms Experience of designing, deploying and administering Linux or Unix based solutions would be advantageous e.g. using virtualisation, containerisation, Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with performance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana, CheckMK.
Your Benefits:
- Flexible working schedules - we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have.
- Flexible Benefits Package – choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
- Employee Incentive Programme – exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel
- Career Development – opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities
Your Future Team:
Joining the Infrastructure Discipline gives a great variety of opportunity, working with the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems.
Our focused and flexible Infrastructure Team consists of industry leading practitioners in engineering and systems administration across all specialisms and experience. We work with multiple customer sets and system classifications, on both public cloud and on premise. Collaboratively we deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems, providing our team a broad range of experiences from which to develop new skills and learning across the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets.
Diversity is at the heart of our success. Our team share experience, knowledge and new thinking gained from a wide range of backgrounds perspective, culture, gender, race, age and many other elements across several industries. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from communities currently under-represented within our industry. We treat everyone with respect and foster safe and inclusive environments.
About Our Responsibilities:
Our customers operate in unique environments which offer new and exciting challenges every day, cultivating a place where you can learn and thrive, working alongside the best minds in industry. We’ll give you space to develop your career, where your ideas can shape the future of our dynamic business.
We promote collaboration to achieve more than we could imagine, together. And within a respectful and inspirational environment, we value what you say and do.
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Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.
Skills Required
- UK citizenship required
- UK highest level of government security clearance (required)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- AWS Certified (Practitioner or Associate) with cloud design, deployment and administration experience
- Experience creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo)
- Experience automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python
- Experience administering virtualised or containerised systems (VMWare, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
- Cloud experience or awareness in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
- Experience with performance monitoring tools (Elastic Stack, Grafana, CheckMK)
- Strong collaboration and excellent verbal and written communication skills (Atlassian Suite: Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
- Strong agile background and ability to work across multiple teams
- Platforms experience designing, deploying and administering Linux or Unix solutions (advantageous)
Northrop Grumman Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northrop Grumman and has not been reviewed or approved by Northrop Grumman.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) matching is considered strong, with additional defined-benefit coverage for certain cohorts and options like catch-up contributions. Retirement programs are repeatedly highlighted as a core strength of the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, company-paid holidays, and compressed work schedules (such as 9/80) provide meaningful time away and flexibility. These scheduling options are cited as a major quality-of-life benefit across many locations.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave alongside caregiver leave, adoption assistance, and back-up care supports a range of family needs. These programs have been expanded recently, signaling continued investment in family support.
Northrop Grumman Insights
What We Do
We are a close-knit community of big thinkers collaborating to keep the world safe. Our passion, creativity and expertise bring next-level technology solutions to life in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, space, and logistics and modernization for our customers around the globe. On the Northrop Grumman team, you’ll join our pursuit of excellence immersed in a dynamic culture of innovation and respect. Your unique perspective will help achieve our shared vision for the future of global security. Every step of the way, you'll be supported by world-class training, employee resource groups and a comprehensive benefits package that enables greater health and happiness for you and your family. Worldwide and across disciplines, we’re challenging what’s possible for technology to protect people and places from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace. And we see the impact of our performance every day. We are Northrop Grumman, and we work on what matters—now, you too can make a difference. Explore opportunities in engineering, IT, manufacturing, business management, cybersecurity and more with us. Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
