Sr Principal DevOps Engineer (*TS/SCI required)

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems 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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) seeks to fill a Senior Principal DevOps Engineer in the Payload and Ground Systems Division Engineering organization supporting Integrated National Systems (INS) Business Unit (BU) to support a new Ground program.  This position can be filled at Morrisville, NC, Fairfax, VA, Linthicum, MD or Aurora CO.

What you’ll get to do?

 A DevOps Engineer plans and evolves processes and infrastructure to execute programs which support rapid maturation and deployment of capability while sustaining a stable security posture and incorporating ongoing stakeholder feedback. Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks. Implements provisioning and deployment techniques via packaging, componentizing, or Cloud distribution. Functions with agile principles to execute efficiently in an environment of continuous feedback. Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.  

Basic Qualifications: 

Senior Principal DevOps Engineer: Bachelor's degree in STEM and a minimum of 9 years of relevant experience; 7 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree; 4 years of relevant experience with a PhD.  13 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Must be a US Citizen with an active TS/SCI

• Experience with developing microservices

• Must hold a Security+ Certification

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS/C2S and Terraform

• Experience with Linux and Ansible

• Experience with Jira, Jenkins and Git/Version Control Software

• Ability to express technical information clearly at different organizational levels

• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, AWS Cloud Security

Preferred Qualifications:

• Polygraph (CI or FSP)

• Experience creating, developing, and implementing solutions to address infrastructure and security requirements

• Ability to identify the needs to build automation, designing and implementing CICD solutions

• Experience working with Docker containers and Helm charts

• Familiarity with space vehicle ground segment design

• Experience with Agile development

• Excellent

• technical writing and team building skills

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA 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.