Principal/Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Principal/ Sr. Principal DeOps Engineer to maintain and enhance capabilities in support of DAF CLOUDworks onsite at our Port San Antonio site in San Antonio, TX.

DAF CLOUDworks is a rapidly growing secure cloud program that encompasses 10+ teams. These teams span all different areas of cloud engineering including information security, infrastructure development, and cloud migration.

You will be an active part of one of these teams providing technical support of customers leveraging DAF CLOUDworks. Along with operations and sustainment, DAF CLOUDworks focuses on modifying and enhancing offerings to implement new requirements, enhance functionality, increase efficiency, or lower operating/deployment. Successful candidates should:

Have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal stakeholders.

Be able to follow Agile Development process and full life cycle development

Interface with multiple, geographically disbursed teams and effectively communicate project statuses and blockers

Ability to support 24X7 on-call

This position can be filled a the Principal or Sr. Principal level:

Basic Qualifications for Principal level (level 3):

A high school diploma with 9 years of relevant experience OR a Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR a master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience

US Citizenship is required

An active Top Secret clearance with SCI, or an inactive TS/SCI clearance that was debriefed less than two years ago.

Able to obtain IAT Level II certification per DoD 8570.01 such as CASP+ or Security+ within 60 days of start date.

Expertise with infrastructure components, including network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts

Strong technical knowledge of Cloud-based technologies (AWS Platform, Azure Platform, Google Cloud)

Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices

Experience with networking

Experience scripting in Bash or PowerShell

Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence)

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal Engineer (level 4):

A high school diploma with 12 years of relevant experience OR a bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience OR a master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience

An active Top Secret clearance or an inactive TS/SCI clearance that was debriefed less than two years ago.