Sentinel Staff Engineer DevOps-16406

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 has an opening for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position can be located in Huntsville, AL or Roy, UT.

What you will get to do:

• Assist with the design of, as well as configure and maintain, infrastructure and/or cloud resources necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).

• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Write scripts and configurations to automate software testing, deployment, and maintenance in a manner consistent with software engineering best practices

• Proactively monitor build and deployment pipelines and infrastructure, apply patches, troubleshoot issues, and resolve errors.

• Automate infrastructure and/or cloud resource deployments and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Remediate findings from vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.

• Informally mentor other staff in DevOps concepts and processes.

• Work with peers and business partners to identify workflows or processes where automation can improve efficiency and or reduce costs.

• Provide Application support, configuration, installation and troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot technical issues, identify the cause, determine possible resolutions, and remediate issues in existing applications•Serve as Product Owner managing priorities, scope and schedule, as needed

• Directly support the SDE Architect by understanding the architecture, design, requirements, and execution details to be able to communicate the key elements to the Product Owners, Assignment Managers, Scrum masters, and element lead.

- Participate as a stakeholder in the software engineering rigor processes to ensure SDE tasks and board submittal processes represent the desired end qualities of the SDE managerial and technical leadership.

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.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

•              12 Years experience with Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field of study; or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

•              Must be a US Citizen with an Active U.S. Government Secret clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance.

•              Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval

•              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).

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

•              Proficiency with Linux based software development tools.

•              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 of DevOps experience with container technologies in support of building and implementing CI/CD pipelines

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

•              Ability to obtain Northrop Grumman Cost Account Management (CAM) certification with 3 months of hire

•              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

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

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

•              Experience as a Product Owner or other technical leadership position in an Agile environment.  Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). 

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

•              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

•              Previous experience with Cost Account Management (CAM) and Earned Value

•              Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner

•              Proven ability to help solve problems or conflicts within teams

•              Proven ability to hold team members accountable to complete work based on approved technical architecture, on schedule and within budget

•              Detailed and team oriented with excellent interpersonal communication, leadership and organizational skills.

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

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Primary Level Salary Range: $152,900.00 - $229,300.00

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.