About the position
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 DevOps Software Engineer/ DevOps Principal Software Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The location for this opportunity is Melbourne, Florida and will be primarily based within our office spaces to support program and business needs. Operating on our 9/80A schedule meaning you will get every other Friday off. The position has No remote or Hybrid work available. The selected candidate will be responsible for designing and managing the Cloud infrastructure. The role will have a large impact on team productivity and as such requires an understanding of the software development lifecycle and various automation tools for developing digital pipelines (CI/CD pipelines). The candidate will support integration of software for use across multi-domain/multi-platform scenarios using software engineering best practices and standards and participate in the full life cycle of software development, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit testing, integration, formal system testing within a cluster environment, release, installation, and maintenance of clusters.
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)
- Setup 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 environment
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 2 Years experience; OR a master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university with 0 Years experience for Software Engineer
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university with 5 Years experience; OR a master’s degree in a STEM discipline from an accredited university with 3 Years experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline from an accredited university with 1 Years experience for Principal Software Engineer
- 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++)
- Ability to obtain and/or transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time
Nice-to-haves
- Experience integrating and debugging SW
- Familiar with networking concepts
- 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 networking concepts (TCP/IP)
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
