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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: SAP 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 is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security.

Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

We are looking for you to join our team as a Software DevOps Engineer based out of Rolling Meadows, IL. As a Software DevOps Engineer at Northrop Grumman, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.

Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation Job Requirements: Deploy CI/CD frameworks that automate code generation, builds, testing at both the unit and system test levels, releases and documentation. Deploying solutions in cloud and virtualized environments.

Developing back-end environments for storing testing data and results Developing web-based front end dashboard applications for reporting and analysis. Maintaining dependency management and container environments Work in a fast-paced Agile type environment This position will be full-time and on-site at our Rolling Meadows, IL. Location This position is contingent upon Funding/Contract award, special access program and acquiring and maintaining the necessary US Government security clearance per customers' requirements prior to start.

This position can be filled at either the DevOps or Principal level based on requirements below Basic Qualifications for DevOps Engineer: Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field and 2+ years of experience; or a master's degree OR in lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of experience is required. Experience writing programs in one or more languages such as Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Shell, Bash, Groovy, Go or similar Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (Containerization, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CloudFormation). Experience with daily development and administration in Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar).

Experience maintaining internet facing production grade applications in virtualized environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform Experience working with and presenting accomplishments to internal and external customers Experience with mentoring junior engineers and contributing to knowledge-sharing sessions and documentation Understanding of Agile/Scrum Methodologies US Citizenship Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of a Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start. Basic Qualifications for Principal DevOps Engineer: Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field and 5+ years of experience; 3+ years of experience with Master's Degree; OR in lieu of a degree, an additional 4 years of experience is required. Experience writing programs in one or more languages such as Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Shell, Bash, Groovy, Go or similar Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (Containerization, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, AWS CloudFormation).

Experience with daily development and administration in Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar). Experience maintaining internet facing production grade applications in virtualized environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform Experience working with and presenting accomplishments to internal and external customers Experience with mentoring junior engineers and contributing to knowledge-sharing sessions and documentation Understanding of Agile/Scrum Methodologies US Citizenship Ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of a Secret Clearance with additional customer specified clearance prior to start. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with monitoring system health with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar; set up alerts and incident response processes.

Familiarity with integration of third-party tools and their deployment to air-gapped networks (e.g. container scanning & signing, code scanning) Primary Level Salary Range: $87,600.00 - $131,400.00 Secondary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 - $163,200.00 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. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.