Staff Engineer DevOps - 14660

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.

As a Staff DevSecOps Engineer for Sentinel's DevStar, this position will be in Roy, Utah and you will have the following scope:
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available Kubernetes clusters and associated infrastructure across multiple environments.
• Implement and manage the full lifecycle of Kubernetes platforms, including stabilization, re-architecture, upgrades, monitoring, logging, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Engineer, deploy, and manage core Kubernetes ecosystem components, including service mesh (e.g., Istio), ingress controllers, load balancers (e.g., MetalLB), monitoring stacks (e.g., Kube-Prometheus-Stack), logging solutions (e.g., Loki), policy enforcement tools (e.g., Kyverno), artifact repositories (e.g., Nexus), identity management (e.g., Keycloak), and backup solutions (e.g., Velero).
• Establish, maintain, and enhance GitOps workflows (e.g., using FluxCD, ArgoCD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices (e.g., Helm, Terraform, Ansible) for automated, version-controlled infrastructure and application deployments.
• Administer, configure, secure, and optimize underlying Linux operating systems (e.g., RHEL) for Kubernetes nodes and supporting servers.
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI) to automate build, test, and deployment processes, resolving performance bottlenecks.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers on Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC, and DevSecOps principles and best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex issues related to the Kubernetes platform, deployed applications, networking, and underlying infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams, security teams, and other stakeholders to define requirements, implement solutions, and ensure smooth operations.
• Manage and maintain system documentation, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides, and operational procedures.
• Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.

Basic Qualifications:
• 12 Years experience with Bachelors in related field of study; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD or 04 additional years in lieu of a degree.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope and Special Access Program (SAP) approval.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and managing GitOps workflows (e.g., FluxCD, ArgoCD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Helm, Terraform, Ansible).
• Strong understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, Load Balancing, Firewalls).
• Possess one or more relevant industry certifications, such as: 
    Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - Strongly preferred
    Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or equivalent security certification
    Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or equivalent Linux certification
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Min 5 years experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Podman).
• Min 5 years experience administering Linux operating systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu).
• Min 5 years experience with CI/CD tools and practices (e.g., GitLab CI).
• Min 2 years experience deploying and managing common Kubernetes ecosystem tools (e.g., Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Velero, Keycloak, Nginx Ingress).

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Salary Range: $147,700.00 - $221,500.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.