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Requisition ID: R10160413
- Category: Engineering
- Location: Roy, Utah, United States of America | Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
- Clearance Type: Secret
- Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
- Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
- Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time
- Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
- Positions Available: 1
Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. 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.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking SDE Staff Operations Lead – 12926. This position will be located in Roy, Utah or Huntsville, Alabama and will support the Sentinel program.
What you will get to do, specific duties to include, but are not limited to the following:
• Develop, implement, and manage operational processes and systems to ensure efficiency, customer satisfaction and stability of the Software Development Environment (SDE)
• Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis
• Monitor and evaluate operational performance and recommend improvements
• Provide guidance and support to operations personnel
• Manage, track, and monitor software licenses renewals, utilization and SSL certifications
• Initiate, manage, and track the procurement of hardware and software for the SDE
• Maintain constant communication with managers, staff, and vendors to ensure proper operations of the team
• Develop CI/CD pipelines
• Implement Infrastructure as Code
• Automate deployments
• Support hybrid cloud deployments
• Serve as SDE Operations Product Owner, responsible for:
o Managing scope and schedule of the work, sprint allocation and roadmap
o Establishes and communicates product vision
o Prioritizes product backlog
o Defines acceptance criteria in product backlog
o Accepts or rejects work products from the team based on acceptance criteria and definition of done
• Foster a working environment which reinforces and drives accountability to fundamental Northrop Grumman Values focused on integrity, quality, shared success, and innovation.
• Partner with peers and management to assure a balanced and efficient assignment of resources to support and achieve key mission priorities.
• Coach, support, train, and motivate team members to ensure a high level of performance.
• Perform software engineering technical tasks as defined by the program support team.
Position Benefits:
As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- 401k
- Educational Assistance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
- Paid Time Off
- Health & Wellness Resources
- Employee Discounts
This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
Job Qualifications:
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- 14 Years with Bachelors in relevant field of study; 12 Years with Masters; 09 Years with PhD or 04 additional years in lieu of a degree.
- Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years.
- U.S. Citizen and Ability to obtain Special Program Access (SAP).
- IAT Level II certification (e.g. Security + CE) or ability to obtain within 6 months.
- Experience with Jira/Confluence in an Agile environment.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft and Linux Red Hat operating system.
- Familiarity with scripting languages (i.e. PERL, Python, Bash, YAML).
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
- Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming), Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
- Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues and predict potential programmatic and technical risks.
- Operates independently with limited to no supervision, and the ability to establish a solid working relationship with technical staff, peers, and customers.
- Able to assimilate information from multiple sources, create coherent plans and then execute those plans.
Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Experience with working in a fast pace, agile environment with the ability to work on cross-functional Scrum team focused on quality and capability delivery.
- Experience with scripting languages (i.e. PERL, Python, Bash, YAML).
- Experience with DevSecOps, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
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.
Employees may be eligible for 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 committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
