Principal / Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer (AHT)
Northrop Grumman2 days ago
Morrisville, NC, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$114k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines, delivery environments, deployment systems, and infrastructure management frameworks.
- Define standards for build, deployment, provisioning, monitoring, software configuration management, code quality, and automated testing.
- Create scripts and templates for infrastructure provisioning, system management, and operational efficiency.
- Monitor, support, install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, application software, and system management tools.
- Evaluate application performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions with developers.
- Oversee security, backup, and redundancy strategies and collaborate with vendors and IT personnel on problem resolution.
Requirements
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI access.
- Active U.S. Government CI Polygraph, current and within scope.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Principal qualification: bachelor’s degree plus 5 or more years of relevant experience, a master’s degree plus 3 years, a PhD plus 0 years, or 9 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- Sr. Principal qualification: bachelor’s degree plus 8 or more years of relevant experience, a master’s degree plus 6 years, a PhD plus 4 years, or 12 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform experience.
- Current Security+ certification.
- Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
- Experience in an Agile software development framework.
- Experience with at least three preferred qualifications, including Kubernetes administration, AWS administration, Flux, Helm, DynamoDB, NATS, Big Bang, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Jenkins, GitLab, or Bamboo.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- The position can be based in Aurora, Colorado; Morrisville, North Carolina; or Sacramento, California, with no travel required.
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About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).