Site Reliability Engineer (AHT)

Northrop Grumman
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, United States of America
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior
Compensation
$ 114K

Job location

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Automation of Tests
Bash
Code Review
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Python
Networking Basics
Cisco Nexus Switches
Powershell
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Istio
Grafana
Gitlab
Containerization
Git Flow
Kubernetes
Vertica
Jenkins

Requirements

  • 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, * 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.

Benefits & conditions

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.

About the company

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.

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