RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: No
CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
Description
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.
Northrop Grumman’s Site Reliability Engineers are tasked with guaranteeing the dependability of applications they don’t build, setting user focused reliability targets, instrumenting those metrics, and developing the automation and runbooks needed to recover from failures. They work closely with development teams to embed operational quality early in the software lifecycle and assume primary responsibility for resolving production issues when they arise. Their skill set includes troubleshooting distributed systems, handling incidents, and converting those experiences into lasting reliability enhancements. On a daily basis, their work is organized around four key areas: incident management, reducing manual toil, evaluating reliability, and enabling platform capabilities.
This position may be filled at as a level 2 or 3 based on the qualifications below and is contingent on funding.
Basic Qualifications:
- Site Reliability Engineer (Level 2): Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2 years of related experience OR a master’s degree with 0 years of experience
- Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Level 3): Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5 years of related experience OR a master’s degree with 3 years of experience
- Must have the ability to obtain a Department of War Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance (TS/SCI)
- Have or obtain IAT Level II certification such as SecurityX (formerly CASP+) or Security+ within 90 days.
- Minimum of three years of experience In Systems Administration.
- Linux/networking fundamentals
- Demonstrated understanding of systems thinking, including the ability to identify inter dependencies, assess potential blast radius, and analyze how multiple components can fail together to ensure resilient infrastructure.
- Basic knowledge of observability fundamentals, encompassing more than the three core signals (logs, metrics, traces) and demonstrating the ability to select, implement, and leverage telemetry data to optimize services and enhance engineering productivity.
- Fundamental software engineering skills, including the development of automation scripts and APIs, proficiency with Git branching and workflow conventions, and active participation in peer code reviews.
- Strong Communication, Collaboration, and Organizational Skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Kubernetes, ArgoCD/GitOps, disaster recovery, capacity planning.
- OTel standards, Grafana/Perses, Tempo, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics.
- Scripting experience using tools such as Python, Bash, PowerShell.
- Experience with DevOps architecture leveraging automation, containerization, and GitOps, using GitLab/Jenkins/ArgoCD for CI/CD, Kubernetes (K8s) for orchestration, Istio for service mesh, and Nexus/Harbor for artifact repositories.
- SRE Certifications from The DevOps Institute, AWS Solution Architect, or similar.
- Dashboard quality, alert design, anomaly detection.
Primary Level Salary Range: $75,800.00 - $113,800.00
Secondary Level Salary Range: $94,200.00 - $141,200.00
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
