Lead DevOps Engineer

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Full time
Location: Cheltenham
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Job offered by: Northrop Grumman
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Category: IT & Technology
Clearance Type:

Highest Level of Government Clearance Telecommute:

Yes-May consider hybrid teleworking for this position Travel Required:

Yes, 10% of the Time Relocation Assistance:

Relocation assistance may be available Positions Available:

1 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, we align complex systems to exacting standards and deliver mission value that transforms client systems, whilst delivering improvement in reliability, cost, and organisational agility. Flexible working schedules -

we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have. Flexible Benefits Package

– choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance, and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments. Employee Incentive Programme –

exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel. Career Development –

opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities. 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. Conduct 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: Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo. Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet, or Python. Experience of administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare or Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift. Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaboration tooling e.g. Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket). 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. Experience of designing, deploying, and administering Linux or Unix-based solutions would be advantageous e.g. using virtualisation, containerisation, Infrastructure as Code. 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, perspective, culture, gender, race, age, 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. #LI-CJ1 #LI-HYBRID Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce. Be part of a culture that thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and bringing your whole self to work. Use your skills to build and deliver innovative tech solutions that protect the world and shape a better future. Enjoy benefits like work-life balance, education assistance, and paid time off. Did you know?

Northrop Grumman leads the industry team for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most complex, and powerful space telescope ever built. Launched in December 2021, the telescope incorporates innovative design, advanced technology, and groundbreaking engineering, and will fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe.

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