Sentinel Sr Principal DevOps Engineer - 18893
Northrop Grumman1 day ago
Roy, UT, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$123k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop infrastructure-as-code solutions.
- Create 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 and Windows Server environments, including deployment, hardening, lifecycle management, and patching.
- Manage VMware vSphere infrastructure, including ESXi hosts, clusters, resource pools, templates, and virtual networking and storage objects.
- Provision and manage Omnissa Horizon VDI environments, including golden images, desktop pools, and lifecycle maintenance.
- Administer and automate Microsoft IIS web servers, including configuration, deployment, hardening, and integration.
- Support PostgreSQL databases through provisioning, configuration, monitoring, backup, restore, and performance troubleshooting.
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments.
- Monitor and optimize infrastructure performance, reliability, scalability, and utilization.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and collaborate with teams and stakeholders on automation and infrastructure solutions.
- Document processes and configurations and communicate progress, issues, and best practices.
Requirements
- Eight years of experience with a bachelor's degree in a related field, six years with a master's degree, four years with a PhD, or four additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- U.S. citizenship and an active or interim DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date within the last six years.
- Ability to obtain Special Program Access within the required business timeframe.
- Four years of experience with Microsoft and Red Hat Linux operating systems.
- Four years of experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Bash, or YAML.
- Two years of experience with Microsoft IIS, including site configuration, SSL/TLS, and administration.
- Two years of experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including administration, backup/restore, and performance troubleshooting.
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity technologies, NIST standards, and RMF governance.
- Two years of experience with Jira and Confluence in an Agile environment.
- IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ CE, or ability to obtain it within six months.
- Preferred qualifications include a STEM bachelor's degree, automation or configuration-management experience, source-code configuration-management tools, Kubernetes implementation and Day 2 operations, VMware Cloud Foundation, Terraform, vCenter, vSphere, Docker, OpenShift, DOORS, and Cameo.
- Preferred candidates have SAP access and strong interpersonal, communication, organizational, critical-thinking, and logical-reasoning skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k), life insurance, educational assistance, employee assistance programs, and work/life solutions.
- Paid time off, health and wellness resources, employee discounts, company-paid holidays, and other savings-plan benefits.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- The standard schedule is 9/80, with every other Friday off.
- The role requires 10% travel and an interim Secret clearance at start.
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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).