Infrastructure Product Owner (DevOps) – level 5

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: SCI

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.

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 an Infrastructure Product Owner (DevOps) – Level 5, you will be supporting our Software and Electronics/Payloads Department which has ~200 Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, Network Engineers, and Engineering Leaders from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects to Product Owners and Scrum Masters. This engineering organization supports numerous programs across Divisions and Business Units of the Space Sector. We have opportunities for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions over one’s career.

This role will be located at our Morrisville, NC location.  On this team, you’ll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. 

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

The ideal candidate must have relevant DevOps experience and prior Agile Product Owner experience to join a small team as their Product Owner.

This position is contingent upon the candidate verification/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):

• Requires an active U.S. Government DoD Top-Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] current and within scope, at time of application

• Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 10 years of professional experience – OR PhD with 8 years of professional experience.Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.

• DevOps Engineering experience including CI/CD pipeline deployment

• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab Pipelines, and Scripting

• Experience with Terraform and environment initialization

• Prior Agile experience in either a Product Owner or Scrum Master role

• Prior leadership experience

 

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

• Prior Polygraph (CI or FS)

• Current and active Security+ and CISSP certifications

• Prior engineering experience within the Space Industry

• Excellent presentation, communication, technical writing, and organization skills

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Experience sharing knowledge via mentoring, coaching, or training others

• Experience with developing and deploying CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or GitLab

• Experience with deployment automation scripting using Helm or Ansible or related products

• Experience troubleshooting virtualization, automation, and deployment applications such as Flux CD, Grafana, Athena, Prometheus, Karpenter or related products

• Experience with Linux Operating Systems Preferably RHEL 8/9

• Knowledge of basic networking principles (subnets, VLANs, routing, and firewalls)

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

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