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.

The Warp9 Accelerator Lab is a new Northrop Grumman initiative to revolutionize the way NG builds and delivers software. Our mission is to rapidly deliver great software our users will LOVE. We apply the best & latest technology to achieve our mission. We focus on user-centric, design thinking, and User Experience (UX) to deliver great experiences for our customers. We use Lean Startup entrepreneurial management methodologies to ensure projects are executed rapidly and deliver maximum value to our customers. Most importantly, we focus on culture: Our people are empowered to move fast, learn fast, fail fast, innovate fast, and iterate fast. At Warp9, we boldly build software.

You will be joining an exciting and new initiative to drive digital engineering for a major corporate pursuit. You will apply software engineering to create new tools and new workflows. Your job will be to solve tough problems using modern software to create new ways of doing things for our engineers.

We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.

Essential Functions:

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines that support continuous delivery and deployment of software applications and services

• Develop and maintain automation tools for provisioning, configuring, and deploying infrastructure and applications

• Manage user IAM groups and ensure proper access controls are in place

• Spin up and manage EC2 instances to support development and production environments

• Identify and resolve any bottlenecks or blockers that may be hindering developer productivity

• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to ensure that the necessary

  security controls are implemented throughout the software development lifecycle

• Ensure that all systems are properly monitored, and ale rting systems are in place

• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in the DevSecOps field and make recommendations for improvements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM Discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics ) from an accredited University/College and 2 years of software engineering experience, or a Master's in STEM and 0 years of related experience

• Hands-on experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines for full-stack web applications

• Direct experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, for both

  development and deployment

• Direct experience with general infrastructure and application security concepts

• Familiarity with 12-factor application methodology

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Azure cloud experience

• Experience with Ansible Suite (Jira, Confluence, etc) in an Agile environment

• Strong scripting skills (i.e., PERL, Python, Bash, YAML)

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Security Clearance
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous DevSecOps Engineering experience

• Knowledge of site reliability and best-practices, including high-availability implementations, load

  balancing, network fault tolerance, and zero trust security architecture

• Implementing scalability and fault tolerance through code refactoring and a cloud-first mindset

• Experience with deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or Azure

• Direct experience with authentication concepts such as SSO, SAML, and LDAP

• Direct experience with operations monitoring and root cause analysis

• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell

• Full-stack (Node.js-based) software development experience

• Experience in two or more of the following: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams

• Active Secret DoD clearance or above
  

Salary Range: $85,000 USD - $127,400 USD

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 health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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 http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.