Sr Principal DevOps Platform 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, but they’re also making history. Today’s dynamic global security threats require solutions both big and small – solutions living within the Northrop Grumman Microelectronics Center (NGMC). Boasting state-of-the-art design capabilities, multiple processing nodes, electrical testing, environmental and QCI screening, and failure analysis, the NGMC is a leader in designing, fabricating, packaging, and delivering discriminating microelectronics to the military, aerospace, and commercial markets. For more than 70 years, we have been offering a wide range of trusted foundry and semiconductor services that deliver high performing and reliable microelectronics. Our wide breadth of technologies and capabilities allows us to provide our customers with unique “More than Moore” solutions. Microelectronics | Northrop Grumman One of our most challenging new fields is Microelectronics Design and Applications (MDA), which combines the unique properties of superconductivity and quantum mechanics to develop radical new energy-efficient computing systems. MDA is seeking a Senior Principal DevOps Platform Engineer with demonstrated ability to lead development of new technologies to support our innovative MDA team in support of emerging supercomputing technologies. As a Senior Principal DevOps Platform Engineer, you will have an opportunity to be a part of a technology development organization that is collaborative, open, transparent, team-oriented, and flexible, where continuous learning is encouraged, all within a culture of design. By combining software and hardware knowledge to automate and improve the software development lifecycle, help MDA bridge the gap between development and production. Roles and Responsibilities: Support the MDA DevOps initiative with any program specific responsibilities allocated to the role to include: Design and manage platform architecture in air-gapped environments Deploy and maintain Kubernetes clusters to support containerized applications with scalability, reliability, and security Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions to automate and standardize platform tool deployments (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Fluentd) Build and optimize CI/CD pipeline templates in GitLab to streamline application deployment and testing workflows across various environments Deploy and maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) to enhance performance reliability and visibility Automate incident management processes, including root cause analysis and self-healing mechanisms, to improve platform stability Ensure compliance with security best practices throughout the platform and processes Collaborate with development, Information Assurance, and IT teams to align infrastructure with platform requirements Stay up to date on emerging technologies and trends to incorporate relevant advancements into the DevOps Platform This position is contingent upon clearance. This position will serve 100% onsite in Linthicum / Annapolis Junction, MD.