RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
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Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Sr Principal DevOps Engineer - 18952. This position is located in Roy, UT and supports the Sentinel program.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Storage Engineer to design, implement, and manage our enterprise-level storage infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the high availability, performance, and security of our storage systems across hybrid cloud environments. You will lead storage architecture initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor junior engineers to maintain a cutting-edge data management pipeline
This individual sets the technical direction for the program, mentors engineering staff, leads major architecture and design reviews, and ensures that the delivered system complies with all relevant regulations, guidance, and DoD policies.
What You’ll Get To Do:
- Design & Architecture: You get to blueprint scalable storage environments using technologies like SAN (Storage Area Network), NAS (Network-Attached Storage), and cloud systems (AWS, Azure, GCP). You'll map out how data flows and how it will scale to hold petabytes of information.
- Provisioning & Configuration: You will carve out, hook up, and allocate storage volumes or "LUNs" to servers, virtual machines, and databases so they have the speed and space they need.
- Data Protection & Disaster Recovery: You get to be the ultimate safety net. You will design backup schedules, set up replication across different data centers, and test disaster scenarios so the company can bounce back instantly if a server crashes.
- Infrastructure Automation: Modern storage engineers write scripts (using Python, PowerShell, or Bash) and use infrastructure-as-code tools (like Ansible or Terraform) so that storage can be spun up automatically without manual click-throughs
- Collaborate Across Disciplines – Work closely with product owners, data scientists, platform architects, and other systems engineers to align security requirements with mission objectives, performance, and schedule constraints.
Position Benefits:
As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including
Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
Educational Assistance
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
Paid Time Off
Health & Wellness Resources
Employee Discounts
This positions standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or a Masters’ Degree with 6 years of relevant experience, or a PhD with 4 years of relevant experience.
- Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need.
- Experience: 7+ years of dedicated experience managing enterprise storage environments in large-scale setups.
- Currently meets DoD 8140 IAT Level II Certification Requirements (Examples: Security+ CE, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC)
- Storage Technologies: Expert-level knowledge of SAN (Fibre Channel, iSCSI) and NAS (NFS, SMB/CIFS) protocols and hardware.
- Vendor Platforms: Proven hands-on experience with major enterprise storage platforms (e.g., Dell EMC PowerStore/Isilon, NetApp ONTAP, Pure Storage FlashArray).
- Scripting & Automation: Strong proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash for automating infrastructure tasks.
- Protocols & Networking: Deep understanding of storage networking concepts, including zoning, masking, and configuring Fiber Channel switches (Cisco MDS or Brocade).
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance
- SysML modeling (Cameo, Enterprise Architect) and application of cybersecurity profile stereotypes.
- Experience with cyber test automation tools (e.g., OpenSCAP, Snyk, Burp Suite, Metasploit).
- Cloud Storage Integration: Experience integrating on-premises storage architectures with public cloud storage solutions (e.g., AWS S3/EBS, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.
- Certifications: Relevant industry certifications such as NetApp Certified Technology Associate/Professional, EMCSA, or cloud-specific storage specialties are a major plus.
- Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading technical projects and mentoring mid-to-junior level engineering staff.
- Proficiency with IBM DOORS Next or similar requirements management tools.
- Experience authoring Incident Response Playbooks and leading Red Team/Blue Team exercises.
- Certifications: CISSP, ISSAP, CSSLP, OSCP
- Certification from VMWare and Cisco is desired
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Primary Level Salary Range: $122,800.00 - $184,200.00
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.
