Sr. Principal DevOps Software Engineer
Northrop GrummanAbout the role
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 Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Sr. Principal DevOps Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.
Sr. Principal DevOps Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and managing the Cloud infrastructure. Duties include deploying product updates, setting up software factory, virtual machines, containers, and orchestration. This role will have a large impact on team productivity and as such requires an understanding of platform engineering best practices and various automation tools for developing digital pipelines (CI/CD pipelines). The Principal DevOps Engineer/Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer will support integration of software for use across multi-domain/multi-platform scenarios using software engineering best practices and standards and participate in software release processes, developing platform as a service (PaaS), managing antifactory, performing integration and test and troubleshooting production environment.
Duties/Responsibilities:
Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability
Maintain and troubleshoot networking components, including VLANs, firewalls, switches, and routers
Install, configure, and maintain operating systems, software, servers, and hardware.
Deploy, manage, and support virtualized environments (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V, or other hypervisors)
Implement and manage core infrastructure services (e.g., DNS, DHCP, NAS, and Active Directory)
Set up an overall Cloud-native Software Factory
Manage and improve container orchestration and deployment strategies
Support programs with integration and deployment automation in a cloud enabled
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 6 years of relevant experience
Working knowledge of Windows and Linux environments
Experience with containers and kubernetes
Experience scripting in YAML, Powershell, BASH, JSON, etc…
Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Familiar with SW Development in at least one language (Java, Python, C++)
Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Top-Secret clearance (DoD must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.
Preferred Experience:
Familiar with networking concepts
Experience integrating and debugging SW
Experience working within an Agile environment
Familiar with Cloud Management and Administration
Able to work independently
Collaborating with team and adjacent internal team
- Familiar with Ansible, Gitlab, Zarf packaging tool, Rancher Fleet
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