Dev Sec Ops / Principal Dev Sec Ops SW Systems 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. Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS), Bellevue, NE is currently seeking Dev Sec Ops / Principal Dev Sec Ops SW Systems Engineer. The successful candidates will demonstrate a broad skill set balanced between interpersonal and technical capabilities achieving sustainable quality products. They will have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The selected candidates will participate in the entire software development lifecycle with a concentration in software engineering. The candidates will work closely with other software developers accomplishing the following: Complete work independently and as a part of an Agile team, Support team in completing necessary software on schedule, Solve complex problems through innovative and creative solutions, Collaborate with software designers and/or software engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of software systems, Regularly demonstrate progress to customers. Pending award of contract and funding. Basic Qualifications for a Dev Sec Ops SW Engineer: One of the following: A high school diploma with a minimum of 6 years of software development experience, A bachelor's in science degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 2 years of software development experience, A master's in science degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 0 years of software development experience, Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with small technical teams, Experience with Infrastructure as Code automation, Experience with DevSecOps principles and practices, Experience working in Agile software development environments, Ability to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish project results, Ability to obtain/maintain access to work 100% on-site in Bellevue, NE, Active DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information Security Clearance. Basic Qualifications for a Principal Engineer Software: One of the following: A high school diploma with a minimum of 9 years of software development experience, A bachelor's in science degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 5 years of software development experience, A master's in science degree in a STEM field with a minimum of 3 years of software development experience, Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with small technical teams, Experience with Infrastructure as Code automation, Experience with DevSecOps principles and practices, Experience working in Agile software development environments, Ability to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish project results, Ability to obtain/maintain access to work 100% on-site in Bellevue, NE, Active DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information Security Clearance. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Container Management Platforms such as RKE2, AWS, OpenShift, etc. Automation technologies such as Ansible, Helm, etc. Virtualization platforms such as VMWare, Proxmox, etc. Experience with DevSecOps: Implementing and maintaining CI/CD software pipelines, Automating the securing and hardening software products, Enabling operations and maintenance activities with Infrastructure as Code, Creating solutions that encourage Dev-Prod Parity, Experience with Data Architectures and Data Streaming: Implementing tools to support Data Mesh or Data Fabric platforms, Designing domain-oriented data architectures, Supporting data governance and policy with tooling and automation, Experience with microservices patterns and creating solutions that run in a containerized environment, Experience with object-oriented programming, web development frameworks, and full stack application architectures, Demonstrated use of configuration management (Git, Bitbucket, Mercurial, Ansible Galaxy), Demonstrated use of collaboration tool suites (Atlassian, GitLab).