Principal DevOps Engineer (AHT)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS) is seeking DevOps engineers with cloud experience to develop and maintain capabilities in support of a new defense program called CHAIN (C4ISR Holistic Analysis of Networks).  CHAIN has been designated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to become the standard C4ISR intelligence and analysis tool across the entire DoD intelligence community (DoD IC).  CHAIN will be an entirely cloud-based DevSecOps platform based on Platform One’s Big Bang.  It will feature the latest in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects and tools.  Candidates should have a track record and interest in working with containerized cloud technologies to solve complex challenges and deliver results to support today’s modern warfighter and C4ISR intelligence analysts.  The CHAIN program is being managed from the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.    

Basic Qualifications:

• One of the following:
  • A high school diploma with a minimum of 9 years of software development experience
  • A bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of software development experience
  • A master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of software development experience
  • A doctorate degree with a minimum of 1 year of software development experience
• Experience developing and working with containers (Docker, Podman)
• Experience with creating and maintaining DevOps CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners)
• Exposure / experience with static code analysis tools (SonarQube, Fortify)
• Exposure / experience with anti-virus, common vulnerability exposure (CVE), and software supply chain scanning (ClamAV, Trivy, Nexus Lifecycle).
• Experience with Git source code management tools (GitHub or GitLab)
• Exposure / experience with automated unit and integration testing
• Working knowledge of Scrum agile development process
• Ability to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish project results
• Ability to comprehend and analyze complex problems and develop solutions
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with co-workers and cloud engineers.
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience deploying enterprise full stack web applications in cloud environments such as AWS EKS, VMWare TKGS, or Rancher
• Experience with Java or Python.
• Experience with one or more build ecosystems (Maven, Gradle)
• Experience with modern frontend JavaScript frameworks (React.js, Vue.js)
• Experience working with open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects and tools, including:
  • Helm charts
  • ArgoCD
  • Istio
  • Keycloak
  • Harbor
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus

Salary Range: $100,300.00 - $150,500.00

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.