Staff Principal Infrastructure Product Owner DevOps (AHT)
Job Description
Own DevOps product outcomes for infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities supporting Northrop Grumman’s Software and Electronics/Payloads organization.
Responsibilities
- Support the Software and Electronics/Payloads Department (~200 Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, Network Engineers, and Engineering Leaders) across Divisions and Business Units within the Space Sector
- Join a small team as the Product Owner with relevant DevOps experience and prior Agile Product Owner experience
Requirements
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance at time of application: current, within scope, and ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access
- U.S. citizenship
- Education and experience alignment:
- Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of professional experience
- Master’s degree with 8 years of professional experience
- PhD with 6 years of professional experience
- Additional 4+ years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- DevOps Engineering experience, including CI/CD pipeline deployment
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab Pipelines, and scripting
- Experience with Terraform and environment initialization
- Prior Agile experience in either a Product Owner or Scrum Master role
- Prior leadership experience
Technologies
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Gitlab Pipelines
- Terraform
- CI/CD pipeline
- GitLab
- Scripting
- SCI approval/access
Location
- Morrisville, NC (onsite)
- This role is also described as located at Aurora, CO or Morrisville, NC
Travel
- Yes, 10% of the time
Clearance
- Required for start: Yes
- Type: Top Secret
Salary
- USD 135,800 - 213,400 per year
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Depending on the position, eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
- Annual bonuses
- Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives
Relocation
- Relocation assistance may be available
Preferred Qualifications (Not Required)
- Active CI or FS Polygraph, or held a Polygraph within the last 24 months
- Current and active Security+ and CISSP certifications
- Prior engineering experience within the Space Industry
- Excellent presentation, communication, technical writing, and organization skills
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Experience sharing knowledge via mentoring, coaching, or training others
- Experience developing and deploying CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or GitLab
- Experience with deployment automation scripting using Helm or Ansible or related products
- Experience troubleshooting virtualization, automation, and deployment applications such as Flux CD, Grafana, Athena, Prometheus, Karpenter or related products
- Experience with Linux operating systems, preferably RHEL 8/9
- Knowledge of basic networking principles (subnets, VLANs, routing, and firewalls)
Application Period
- Estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date
- May be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability