DevOps Engineer – Level 2 or 3

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a DevOps Engineer – Level 2 or 3 supporting a team located in Dulles, VA, you’ll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one.

This work will primarily be performed in a SCIF environment. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Job Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Be a part of the enabling technology at Northrop Grumman that puts satellites and spacecraft into space that catapults the Space Protection Mission to the forefront of capability and effectiveness
• Take program software to the next level by using automation frameworks
• Learn cutting edge technologies that take full advantage of a cloud environment
• Locate and remediate problems in code, testing, and deployment
• Use tools like Jenkins and Ansible to set up automation steps that fast-track code from development, testing, and deployment
• 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
• Produce applications that span languages and toolsets including Python, Postgres, Ansible, cloud infrastructure provisioning, PKI, and static code analysis

This work will primarily be performed in a SCIF environment. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

Basic Qualifications (must have/required to be considered):

This requisition may be filled at either a level 2, or a level 3 (Principal), depending on the candidate’s experience as laid out in the basic qualifications detailed below as well as the interview assessment.

• Requires an active/current U.S. Government DoD Top-Secret (TS) security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) approval/access within a reasonable period of time

Level 2:

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of relevant experience
• An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor’s
• Master’s degree with 0 years of relevant experience
• 2+ years of DevOps experience in Cloud Infrastructure, Containerization, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives and Jira metrics reporting
• Experience working in Windows and Linux at the command line interface.
• Experience with PowerShell and Bash scripting.
• Current Security+, CISSP, or other certification that meets DoD 8140 IAT Level II or Level III

Level 3: (Principal level)

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience
• An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor’s
• Master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience
• PhD with 1 year of relevant experience
• 5+ years of DevOps experience in Cloud Infrastructure, Containerization, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• 5+ years in a technical leadership role managing technical objectives and Jira metrics reporting
• Experience working in Windows and Linux at the command line interface.
• Experience with PowerShell and Bash scripting.
• Current Security+, CISSP, or other certification that meets DoD 8140 IAT Level II or Level III

Preferred Qualifications (not required, but nice to have):

• TS with current/active SCI
• Favorably adjudicated CI or FS polygraph
• STEM degree
• AWS experience

If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!

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