Principal/sr. Principal Devops Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Rolling Meadows, IL +1 · Software

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer to deploy CI/CD frameworks, manage cloud and virtualized environments, develop backend and frontend applications for data storage and reporting, and maintain dependency and container environments within a fast-paced Agile setting. The role requires experience with various programming languages, deployment technologies, and Linux administration, with a focus on automating code generation, builds, testing, and releases for national defense products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deploy CI/CD frameworks that automate code generation, builds, testing at both the unit and system test levels, releases and documentation.
  2. Deploying the solutions in cloud and virtualized environments.
  3. Developing back end environments for storing testing data and results
  4. Developing web-based front end dashboard applications for reporting and analysis.
  5. Maintaining dependency management and container environments

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in STEM or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience (Principal) / 8+ years of experience (Sr. Principal)
  • Experience writing programs in Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Shell, Bash, Groovy, Go or similar
  • Experience 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 (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • 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)

What the JD emphasized

  • CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
  • CLEARANCE TYPE: SAP
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of a Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start.