Lead DevOps Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Northrop Grumman as a critical DevOps Engineer, collaborating with agile delivery teams to design, build, and maintain mission-critical systems. You'll automate deployments, manage CI/CD pipelines, and drive improvements in reliability and organizational agility.
// Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain mission-critical systems with stakeholders.
- Automate system deployment, operation, and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code.
- Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for stability and quality.
- Focus on cloud readiness and microservices architecture migration.
- Utilize experience with CI/CD tools, automation scripting, and containerized systems.
- Collaborate effectively in an agile environment with excellent communication skills.
// Role Specification
About the Role
DevOps Engineers are critical to the success of our market-leading and agile delivery teams across Northrop Grumman. Collaborating with Architects, Software Developers, and Testers, you will align complex systems to exacting standards and deliver mission value that transforms client systems, whilst delivering improvement in reliability, cost, and organizational agility.
Your Responsibilities
- Work with stakeholders to design, build and maintain mission critical systems.
- Automate system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling.
- Lead and drive decisions to implement best-fit tools to solve complex project problems effectively.
- Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the SDLC (software development life cycle).
- Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications.
- Undertake migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud-ready and implement microservices architecture.
Your Experience
- Experience of creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo).
- Experience of automating tasks using scripting languages (e.g., Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet, Python).
- Experience of administering virtualised or containerised systems (e.g., VMWare, Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift).
- Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills (verbal and written) using collaboration tooling (e.g., Atlassian Suite).
- Strong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.
- Cloud experience and awareness in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Platforms experience of designing, deploying and administering Linux or Unix-based solutions would be advantageous.
- Experience with performance monitoring tools (e.g., Elastic Stack, Grafana).
Your Future Team
“As a Lead DevOps Engineer I implement and improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to promote stable and efficient environments throughout the SDLC. Using multiple toolsets to automate repetitive processes, monitor and analyse system performances and enable projects to focus on getting the best value out of their tools. I document and share knowledge to help projects grow and learn from previous issues, mentoring junior colleagues to follow best practices.” - Craig, Lead DevOps Engineer, National Security Solutions @ Northrop Grumman UK
Joining the Infrastructure Discipline gives a great variety of opportunity, working with the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems. Our focused and flexible Infrastructure Team consists of industry-leading practitioners in engineering and systems administration across all specialisms and experience. We work with multiple customer sets and system classifications, on both public cloud and on-premise. Collaboratively we deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems, providing our team a broad range of experiences from which to develop new skills and learning across the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets.
Diversity is at the heart of our success. Our team shares experience, knowledge, and new thinking gained from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, cultures, genders, races, ages, and many other elements across several industries. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from communities currently under-represented within our industry. We treat everyone with respect and foster safe and inclusive environments.