Sr Principal DevOps Engineer

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. The Payload and Ground Systems, a division within Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, redefining engineering capabilities, and driving advances in various sciences through cutting-edge technology. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, and innovative technologies to develop, design, produce, and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Be a part of our mission! Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) seeks to find a senior-level DevOps Engineer/Team Lead in the Payload and Ground Systems Division Engineering organization supporting the Integrated National Systems (INS) Business Unit (BU) to support a Ground program. What you’ll get to do: As a DevOps Engineer on this team, you will lead a DevOPs team supporting a CI/CD pipeline in multiple environments. You will also verify and validate requirements for the environments ensuring ATO and maintaining security vulnerabilities software for a Ground Segment. In this role, you will be supporting program leadership and the customer. Ultimately, you will support the program through maturity and milestones to achieve the mission, ensuring everything is synchronized. We have multiple DevOps Engineering positions across the Ground program, on contract to deliver the ground segment for a restricted space program. This work will span DevOps, CM processes, ATO, maintaining security vulnerabilities, and system infrastructure. We have anticipated future growth to deliver additional ground capabilities. The successful candidate will have broad DevOps experience to include Cloud technologies and team leadership skills. They will have the ability to manage changes and present options for managing scope and dependencies to the technical and management teams in concise briefings. The candidate is expected to operate independently with little oversight in a dynamic environment and to be highly self-motivated. The ideal candidate is a leader who excels in keeping the program management and the customer informed. The individual is expected to handle diverse problems with efficiency, finding unique solutions, while working in a very collaborative and fast paced environment that continues to grow. Job responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following: Clearly translating technical solutions to upper management and the customer Write/edit scripts (INF as code) to aid with configuration maintenance of Gitlab/Gitlab-ci Automate configuration maintenance (CM) process and support CM for elements (automation scripting or manual until automated) Maintain security vulnerabilities software. Review scans, process to automate these issues, and make updates to libraries. Make recommendations to resolve deficiencies in code and/or implement recommendations. Plans and evolves processes and infrastructure to execute programs which support rapid maturation and deployment of capability while sustaining a stable security posture and incorporating ongoing stakeholder feedback. Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks. Implements provisioning and deployment techniques via packaging, componentizing, or Cloud distribution. Functions with agile principles to execute efficiently in an environment of continuous feedback. Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.