Description
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!
We are looking for you to join our team as a Software DevOps Engineer based out of Rolling Meadows, IL. As a Software DevOps Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.
Job Requirements:
• Deploy CI/CD frameworks that automate code generation, builds, testing at both the unit and system test levels, releases and documentation. • Deploying the solutions in cloud and virtualized environments. • Developing back end environments for storing testing data and results. • Developing web-based front end dashboard applications for reporting and analysis. • Maintaining dependency management and container environments. • Work in a fast paced Agile type environment.
This position will be full-time and on-site at our Rolling Meadows, IL. Location.
This position is contingent upon Funding/Contract award, special access program and acquiring and maintaining the necessary US Government security clearance per customers requirements prior to start.
This position can be filled at either the Principal or Sr. Principal level based on requirements below.
Basic Qualifications for Principal DevOps Engineer:
• Bachelors Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field and 5+ years of experience; 3+ years of experience with Masters Degree OR in lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of experience is required. • Experience writing programs in one or more languages such as Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Shell, Bash, Groovy, Go or similar. • Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (Containerization, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CloudFormation). • Experience with daily development and administration in Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar). • Experience maintaining internet facing production grade applications in virtualized environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. • Experience working with and presenting accomplishments to internal and external customers. • Experience with mentoring junior engineers and contributing to knowledge-sharing sessions and documentation. • Understanding of Agile/Scrum Methodologies. • Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of a Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start.
Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer:
• Bachelors Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field and 8+ years of experience; 6+ years of experience with Masters Degree; OR in lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of experience is required. • Experience writing programs in one or more languages such as Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Shell, Bash, Groovy, Go or similar. • Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (Containerization, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CloudFormation). • Experience with daily development and administration in Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar). • Experience maintaining internet facing production grade applications in virtualized environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. • Experience working with and presenting accomplishments to internal and external customers. • Experience with mentoring junior engineers and contributing to knowledge-sharing sessions and documentation. • Understanding of Agile/Scrum Methodologies. • Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of a Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with monitoring system health with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar; set up alerts and incident response processes. • Familiarity with integration of third-party tools and their deployment to air-gapped networks (e.g. container scanning & signing, code scanning).
Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defense and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Our 90,000 employees are Defining Possible every day using science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will allow you to work together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines.
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