Sentinel - Manager DevOps Engineering 2 - 14262

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Manager DevOps Engineering 2.  This position will be   located in Roy, Utah and will support the Sentinel (GBSD) program.  This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

The candidate will be responsible for leading a team of software engineers and system administrators, providing guidance and assigning work for the Software Development Environment (SDE). The candidate will collaborate closely with the SDE Element Lead, SDE Architect and other SDE Product Owners to plan, develop, integrate, and test infrastructure and software development tools that enables the program to build and deploy Weapon System capabilities.

This position can be assigned to perform 20% functional management responsibilities and 80% technical responsibilities based on mission needs.

What You’ll Get To Do: 

 Functional Management responsibilities include:

•    Support recruitment activities including the creation of requisitions, conducting interviews, and approving offers

•    Collaborate with the SDE Element Lead and Software Engineering Functional Homeroom to establish personal, program and functional goals as well as perform performance evaluations and merit adjustments for team members

•    Provide their team members with career development recommendations, mentoring, discipline, as necessary.

•    Acquire the necessary computers, equipment and tools to enable their subordinates to perform their work and will generate training plans based on the program and their subordinates' needs.

•    Provide their team with regular flow down of company and organizational status and appropriately represent and be a spokesperson for the Software Engineering organization to their group, assigned project, and the company.

•    Set and promote high standards for engineering development

•    Foster a working environment which reinforces and drives accountability to fundamental Northrop Grumman Values focused on integrity, quality, shared success, and innovation.

•    Partner with engineering and program management peers to assure a balanced and efficient assignment of resources to support and achieve key mission priorities

•    Coach, support, train, and motivate team members to ensure a high level of performance

•    Collaborate with peers and direct management in resource planning and hiring activities

Technical responsibilities include:

•    Assist with the design of, as well as configure and maintain, infrastructure and/or cloud resources necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).

•    Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

•    Write scripts and configurations to automate software testing, deployment, and maintenance in a manner consistent with software engineering best practices

•    Proactively monitor build and deployment pipelines and infrastructure, apply patches, troubleshoot issues, and resolve errors.

•    Automate infrastructure and/or cloud resource deployments and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools.

•    Remediate findings from vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.

•    Informally mentor other team members in DevOps concepts and processes.

•    Work with peers and business partners to identify workflows or processes where automation can improve efficiency and or reduce costs.

•    Provide Application support, configuration, installation and troubleshooting

•    Troubleshoot technical issues, identify the cause, determine possible resolutions, and remediate issues in existing applications

•    Serve as Product Owner managing priorities, scope and schedule, as needed

•    Serve as Control Account Management (CAM) or Work P