Software Engineering Manager 2 – Devops Lead

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +2 · Software

Software Engineering Manager 2 – DevOps Lead role at Northrop Grumman, focusing on leading a team of ~10 individuals to develop and maintain software production tools and processes in an Agile environment. The role involves work package management for DevOps products, risk management, and technical guidance, collaborating with various engineering teams. Requires experience with DevOps tools, software development lifecycle, and Agile methodologies, along with a Top Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. lead a team of approximately 10 individuals to continuously develop and maintain software production tools and processes across multiple teams developing in an Agile software development environment.
  2. serve as a work package manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of DevOps products to meet contractual cost, schedule, and technical requirements.
  3. Work closely with program systems engineering, software development, and management professionals to ensure that the software lifecycle is accomplished with high quality and efficiency
  4. Provide Functional Management to direct reports, including career guidance, staffing, interviewing/onboarding, disciplinary actions, and direct engagement

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 9 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 7 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
  • Prior leadership experience using Agile development, including participating as Product Owner, Scrum Master, and/or team member in an Agile development environment
  • Experience with a variety of DevOps tools such as Ansible, Ant, Bamboo, Chef, GitLab, Jenkins, Maven, etc.
  • Experience with software development (Java/Javascript, C++, C# or any modern object-oriented language) and its life cycle
  • Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
  • Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Access Program (SAP) access via a Program Access Request (PAR).
  • Ability to obtain and maintain subsequent SAP PARs following commencement of employment to be able to completely support statement of work.

Nice to have

  • Active U.S. Government Top Secret SCI clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
  • Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
  • Experience developing proposal inputs, cost account management, and resource planning
  • Experience with cost account management and task/resource planning
  • Experience using Atlassian Tool Suite, JIRA, SonarQube
  • Experience with VMware infrastructure and automation

What the JD emphasized

  • flight and mission critical systems
  • Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance
  • Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Access Program (SAP) access
  • Ability to obtain and maintain subsequent SAP PARs