DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4

About the role

This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. A DevOps engineer in Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems division enables rapid, reliable delivery of mission-critical software that powers satellites, ground stations, and launch-vehicle controls.

Responsibilities

• Automate cloud native technologies, deploy applications, and provision critical infrastructure
• Work with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology
• Work within the OpenStack cloud ecosystem to configure and deploy optimized infrastructure
• Ensure monitoring and health of the resources deployed via Nagios or other enterprise management solutions
• Document procedures used during deployment cycles
• Experience with operational monitoring tools
• Work with the fellow DevOps team and play a mentoring role to cross-train and grow technical talent across DevOps team and assist in troubleshooting tasks
• Implement clean and maintainable infrastructure-as-code that adheres to industry best practices, terraform
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications For Level 3: Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree
• Basic Qualifications For Level 4: Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree
• Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] at time of application, current and within scope
• 3+ years of DevOps experience
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives
• Experience in Jira metrics reporting
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, & Ansible
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s)

Qualifications

• STEM degree
• Experience in Linux tools/automation and shell scripting
• Experience in Python
• Experience with OpenStack management
• Docker containerization
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment tools such as Jenkins or GitLab
• Create, execute, and troubleshoot complex, automated processes used to configure servers and/or deploy code