Sentinel – Manager Devops Engineering 2

Sentinel – Manager Devops Engineering 2

Requirements

• 6 Years experience with Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field of study; or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval
• 4 years experience with build tools (i.e., Maven, Ant, GNU make) and/or continuous integration environments (i.e., Jenkins, GitLab, Bamboo) and/or repositories (i.e. Nexus, JFROG).
• IAT Level II certification (e.g. Security + CE) or ability to obtain within 6 months.
• 4 years experience with Jira/Confluence in an Agile environment.
• Proficiency with Linux based software development tools.
• 4 years experience of Microsoft and Linux Red Hat operating system.
• 4 years experience with scripting languages (i.e. PERL, Python, Bash, YAML).
• 4 years of DevOps experience with container technologies in support of building and implementing CI/CD pipelines
• 4 years of Kubernetes experience
• Experience with Virtualization Technologies
• Experience as a Product Owner or other technical leadership position in an Agile environment. Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Ability to obtain Northrop Grumman Cost Account Management (CAM) certification with 3 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Support recruitment activities including the creation of requisitions, conducting interviews, and approving offers
• Collaborate with the SDE Element Lead and Software Engineering Functional Homeroom to establish personal, program and functional goals as well as perform performance evaluations and merit adjustments for team members
• Provide their team members with career development recommendations, mentoring, discipline, as necessary.
• Acquire the necessary computers, equipment and tools to enable their subordinates to perform their work and will generate training plans based on the program and their subordinates’ needs.
• Provide their team with regular flow down of company and organizational status and appropriately represent and be a spokesperson for the Software Engineering organization to their group, assigned project, and the company.
• Set and promote high standards for engineering development
• Foster a working environment which reinforces and drives accountability to fundamental Northrop Grumman Values focused on integrity, quality, shared success, and innovation.
• Partner with engineering and program management peers to assure a balanced and efficient assignment of resources to support and achieve key mission priorities
• Coach, support, train, and motivate team members to ensure a high level of performance
• Collaborate with peers and direct management in resource planning and hiring activities
• Assist with the design of, as well as configure and maintain, infrastructure and/or cloud resources necessary to reliably host, run, and support applications through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Write scripts and configurations to automate software testing, deployment, and maintenance in a manner consistent with software engineering best practices
• Proactively monitor build and deployment pipelines and infrastructure, apply patches, troubleshoot issues, and resolve errors.
• Automate infrastructure and/or cloud resource deployments and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Remediate findings from vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
• Informally mentor other team members in DevOps concepts and processes.
• Work with peers and business partners to identify workflows or processes where automation can improve efficiency and or reduce costs.
• Provide Application support, configuration, installation and troubleshooting
• Troubleshoot technical issues, identify the cause, determine possible resolutions, and remediate issues in existing applications
• Serve as Product Owner managing priorities, scope and schedule, as needed
• Serve as Control Account Management (CAM) or Work Package Lead (WPL) as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field of study.
• Active DoD Secret clearance with a reinvestigation date occurring in the last 6 years.
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or equivalent.
• Experience with source code configuration management tools (i.e git).
• Experience with HashiCorp Packer and Vault.
• Familiarity with container hardening and SBOM
• Previous experience with Cost Account Management (CAM) and Earned Value
• Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner
• Proven ability to help solve problems or conflicts within teams
• Proven ability to hold team members accountable to complete work based on approved technical architecture, on schedule and within budget
• Detailed and team oriented with excellent interpersonal communication, leadership and organizational skills.
• Strong critical thinking and logical reasoning skills with the ability to solve issues.