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Principal/Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation · 🇺🇸 United States-Texas-San Antonio
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About the role
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes 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. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Principal/ Sr. Principal DeOps Engineer to maintain and enhance capabilities in support of DAF CLOUDworks onsite at our Port San Antonio site in San Antonio, TX . DAF CLOUDworks is a rapidly growing secure cloud program that encompasses 10+ teams. These teams span all different areas of cloud engineering including information security, infrastructure development, and cloud migration. You will be an active part of one of these teams providing technical support of customers leveraging DAF CLOUDworks. Along with operations and sustainment, DAF CLOUDworks focuses on modifying and enhancing offerings to implement new requirements, enhance functionality, increase efficiency, or lower operating/deployment. Successful candidates should: • Have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal stakeholders. • Be able to follow Agile Development process and full life cycle development • Interface with multiple, geographically disbursed teams and effectively communicate project statuses and blockers • Ability to support 24X7 on-call This position can be filled a the Principal or Sr. Principal level : Basic Qualifications for Principal level (level 3): • A high school diploma with 9 years of relevant experience OR a Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR a master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience • US Citizenship is required • An active Top Secret clearance with SCI, or an inactive TS/SCI clearance that was debriefed less than two years ago. • Able to obtain IAT Level II certification per DoD 8570.01 such as CASP+ or Security+ within 60 days of start date. • Expertise with infrastructure components, including network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts • Strong technical knowledge of Cloud-based technologies (AWS Platform, Azure Platform, Google Cloud) • Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices • Experience with networking • Experience scripting in Bash or PowerShell • Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence) • Ability to support 24X7 on-call Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Engineer (level 4): • A high school diploma with 12 years of relevant experience OR a bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience OR a master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience • US Citizenship is required • An active Top Secret clearance or an inactive TS/SCI clearance that was debriefed less than two years ago. • Able to obtain IAT Level II certification per DoD 8570.01 such as CASP+ or Security+ within 60 days of start date. • Expertise with infrastructure components, including network, stora