DevOps Engineer

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing and maintaining the critical CI/CD infrastructure that powers our services. You’ll be self-driven, organised and passionate about building elegant, stable and scalable solutions.

You’ll work across a wide variety of exciting projects with complex challenges, contributing to core solutions that have meaningful, real-world impact. You’ll also bring strong leadership, guiding your team through both technical and delivery challenges to ensure customer needs are met.

“My purpose is to lead a team of engineers, rise to the challenges presented, push the boundaries and define possible together.”, * Own the team’s deliverables, working with the Scrum Master to define a clear delivery path aligned to customer requirements.

• Lead and contribute across the entire CI/CD lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, front-end development and QA, to ensure integrated delivery.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, helping to grow capability and support career development across the team.

• Experience as a DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in CI/CD, containerisation, deployment technologies, and cloud platforms (Jenkins, Kubernetes, IaC, Docker, AWS).
• Proven experience in designing, developing and deploying CI/CD solutions.
• Experience in Linux system administration or similar operating systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across live production environments, including high-level networking, server and application issues.
• Understanding of database technologies such as SQL, Elasticsearch or MongoDB.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills, ideally with experience working in an agile environment.

If you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and a willingness to learn.

At Northrop Grumman UK, you are part of a team driving innovation where it matters most - solving tomorrow’s challenges and shaping the technology and solutions of the future. It’s what we call Defining Possible.

This mind-set goes beyond our customer solutions; it’s the foundation for your career development and the impact we have within the community.