Sentinel Sr Principal DevOps Engineer - 16639*

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the TimeDescription

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.

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems in air and space that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our work preserves freedom, democracy, and advances human discovery and our understanding of the universe. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have a lot of 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 Defense Systems is seeking a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer. This position can be located in Roy, Utah and supports the Sentinel program.

What You’ll Get To Do:

This role will focus on automating the provisioning and management of servers, storage, and networking across VMware and physical environments, improving efficiency, scalability, and reliability for a software development environment.  

As an DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Design and develop infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and Ansible.

• Develop scripts, workflows, and playbooks for storage provisioning, automation, and backup integration.

• Build and maintain automated patching, compliance, and reporting frameworks.

• Administer and automate Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server environments including OS deployment, configuration hardening, lifecycle management and patching

• Manage and automate VMware vSphere based infrastructure including ESXi hosts, clusters, resource pools, templates, and virtual networking/storage objects

• Provision, automate, and manage Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments using Omnissa Horizon including golden image creation, pool configuration and desktop lifecycle maintenance

• Maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless infrastructure deployments.

• Monitor and optimize infrastructure performance to ensure reliability and scalability.

• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related issues efficiently.

• Collaborate with other teams to identify automation opportunities, troubleshoot issues, integrate infrastructure solutions and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems.

• Document Processes and configurations for clarity and maintainability.

• Optimize infrastructure utilization and reduce manual intervention in operational tasks.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand diverse automation needs and advocate for unified solutions.

• Communicate progress, problems and best practices to management, leads and teammates.

• Providing rotating 24x7 on-call support to lead the resolution of system issues and anomalies. On call rotation is subject to change, based on team size, and is currently 1 week of on-call out of every 8-12 weeks.

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

• 401k

• Educational Assistance

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions

• Paid Time Off

• Health & Wellness Resources

• Employee Discounts

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.  This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Basic Qualifications:

Sr. Principal Engineer DevOps: 08 Years with Bachelor’s in related field of study, 06 Years with Masters, 04 Years with PhD or 04 additional years in lieu of a degree.

• US Citizenship with Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years.

• Ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP) within a timeframe to meet business needs

• 4 years experience with build tools (i.e., Maven, Ant, GNU make) and/or continuous integration environments (i.e., Jenkins, GitLab, Bamboo) and/or repositories (i.e. Nexus, JFROG) in a Linux environment

• 4 years experience of Microsoft and Linux Red Hat operating system.

• 4 years experience with scripting languages (i.e. PERL, Python, Bash, YAML).

• 4 years experience with Kubernetes implementation and Day 2 Operations in a CI/CD Pipeline.

• 4 years experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, Terraform, vCenter, vSphere, or similar Virtual Provisioning.

• 4 years experience with container technologies (i.e. Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift)

• Working knowledge of Cybersecurity technologies, NIST standards, and RMF governance

• IAT Level II certification (e.g. Security + CE) or ability to obtain within 6 months.

• Available to support after-hours, on-call, and 24/7 coverage as required by program needs. On call rotation is subject to change, based on team size, and is currently 1 week of on-call out of every 8-12 weeks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field of study.

• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or equivalent.

• Experience with source code configuration management tools (i.e git).

• Experience with HashiCorp Packer and Vault.

• Familiarity with container hardening and SBOM

• Proficient with DOORS, Cameo with the ability to write and decompose system and software requirements

• SAP access

• 2 years experience with Jira/Confluence in an Agile environment.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.

• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues

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Primary Level Salary Range: $122,800.00 - $184,200.00

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.