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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) seeks to find a _DevOps Engineer/Product Owner_ in the Payload and Ground Systems Division Engineering organization supporting the Integrated National Systems (INS) Business Unit (BU) to support a Ground program.

This position will be at our **Morrisville, North Carolina** site.

This position requires being onsite and does not support remote or hybrid work.

The candidate must have relevant DevOps experience and prior Agile Product Owner experience to join a small team as their Product Owner. The candidate, based out of our **Morrisville, NC** location, would also provide individual technical DevOps contributions.

_This requisition may be filled at either a level 3 (principal) or a level 4 (sr principal), depending on the candidate’s experience as laid out in the basic qualifications detailed below as well as the interview assessment._

Basic Qualifications

+ Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance at time of application

+ Must be willing to submit and successfully pass a polygraph

+ Minimum years of experience needed to be considered:

+ Level 3 (Principal)

+ 5 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed bachelor’s degree

+ 3 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed master's degree

+ 1 Year of relevant software engineering experience with a completed PhD

+ 7 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed associate’s degree

+ 9 years of relevant work software engineering experience in lieu of a completed degree _(High School diploma or equivalent is required)_

+ Level 4 (Sr Principal)

+ 8 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed bachelor’s degree

+ 6 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed master's degree

+ 4 Year of relevant software engineering experience with a completed PhD

+ 10 Years of relevant software engineering experience with a completed associate’s degree

+ 12 years of relevant work software engineering experience in lieu of a completed degree _(High School diploma or equivalent is required)_

+ Must have above minimum experience on the below:

+ 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

+ Active/Adjudicated Polygraph (CI or FSP)

+ 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)

To better support our employee’s work/life balance, most NG worksites support a 9/80 work schedule. The 9/80 schedule allows employees to work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday and take every other Friday off. This schedule or other work-hour flexibility options can be determined upon hire.

With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on Earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today. #definingpossible

Salary Range: $100,300.00 - $150,500.00Salary Range 2: $124,900.00 - $187,300.00

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.