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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: YesCLEARANCE TYPE: Top SecretTRAVEL: No 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 Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced Principal / Sr Principal Cloud Engineer (AHT) Engineer to augment our team. This position can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA.Primary Responsibilities:Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology.Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.Work closely with development teams to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolutionMonitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.Oversee the company's security, backup, and redundancy strategies.Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers. This position can be staffed at a Principal Or Sr. Principal level, based on the basic qualifications below. Basic Qualifications:Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.Must have an active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application, current and within scope.United States CitizenshipPrincipal: Bachelor's degree with 5 + years of relevant experience; 3 years with a Master's; 0 years with a PhD; or 9 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.Sr. Principal: Bachelor's degree with 8 + years of relevant experience; 6 years with a Master's; 4 years with a PhD; or 12 additional years of experience in lieu of a degreeMust have all of the following: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform Current Security+ is required.Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.Experience in an Agile software development frameworkExperience with at least 3 of the preferred qualifications Preferred Qualifications:TerraformKubernetes administrationAWS administrationFluxHelmDynamoDBNATS configurationBig Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)Jenk