Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity t o Deliver the Nation's Security. Together
Role clearance type: You must be able to gain and maintain the highest level of UK Government clearance
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
About Your Opportunity:
Infrastructure Engineers are critical to the success of our market leading and agile delivery teams across Northrop Grumman. Collaborating with Architects, Software Developers and Testers, we align complex systems to exacting standards and deliver mission value that transforms client systems, whilst delivering improvement in reliability, cost and organisational agility.
Your Benefits:
* Flexible working schedules - we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have.
* Flexible Benefits Package - choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
* Employee Incentive Programme - exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel
* Career Development - opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities
Your Responsibilities:
* Work with stakeholders to design, build and maintain mission critical systems
* Administering systems, applications and databases based on Linux operating systems
* Maintaining and troubleshooting IP networking systems
* Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
* Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications
Your Experience:
* 5+ years' experience working within IT Systems Design, Deployment and Administration, with recent roles in Technical or Team Leadership positions;
* Extensive experience of administration of Linux and Windows Operating Systems within large corporate environments;
* Experience of the Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Kibana;
* Experience of administering Containerised systems in Docker, OpenShift and/or Kubernetes;
* Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python;
* Experience of AWS to Associate level or equivalent experience;
* Experience of DevOps approaches and CI/CD tooling - Jenkins desirable;
* Experience of designing, deploying & troubleshooting IPv4 Networking, including Subnetting, OSPF Routing, VLANs and VPNs;
Your Future Team:
"As a Lead DevOps Engineer I investigate and implement the latest tools to design, build and support Linux based solutions, using Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling to build and deploy environments and applications across containerised and virtualised environments. I mentor the more junior members of the team in Linux and automation, driving code quality and best practice."
Richard, Lead Linux Engineer, National Security Solutions @ Northrop Grumman UK
Joining the Infrastructure team gives a great variety of opportunity, working with the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems.
Our focused and flexible Infrastructure Team consists of industry leading practitioners in engineering and systems administration across all specialisms and experience. We work with multiple customer sets and system classifications, on both public cloud and on premise. Collaboratively we deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems, providing our team a broad range of experiences from which to develop new skills and learning across the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets.
Diversity is at the heart of our success. Our team share experience, knowledge and new thinking gained from a wide range of backgrounds perspective, culture, gender, race, age and many other elements across several industries. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from communities currently under-represented within our industry. We treat everyone with respect and foster safe and inclusive environments.
About Our Responsibilities:
Our customers operate in unique environments which offer new and exciting challenges every day, cultivating a place where you can learn and thrive, working alongside the best minds in industry. We'll give you space to develop your career, where your ideas can shape the future of our dynamic business.
We promote collaboration to achieve more than we could imagine, together. And within a respectful and inspirational environment, we value what you say and do.
How to Apply:
Interested in our opportunity?
Yes - then simply submit your application online. Your application will be reviewed by one of our expert recruiters who'll then respond advising you of the outcome and next steps for successful candidates.
Possibly, I'd like to find out more - then connect direct with talentenquiries@uk.ngc.com, where one of our recruitment business partners will be happy to support you with any enquires.
Background checks and potentially security clearance form part of the recruitment process, our team will inform you of the procedures when required.
Northrop Grumman UK:
Work with a global brand that makes a real contribution to our nation's security and future. At Northrop Grumman UK, the brightest minds come together to push the boundaries and Define Possible. As leaders in the digital transformation of Aerospace, Defence and Intelligence we are providing ground-breaking outcomes for our customers.
UK Cyber & Intelligence Business :
Our UK Cyber & Intelligence business combines modern software development approaches with a rich heritage and experience in the Defence and security sectors. Our customers have complex and sensitive data and information requirements requiring a mission partner who quickly understands the context, delivering and sustaining a portfolio of challenging technology projects at scale and pace, supporting them through an ambitious digital transformation programme.
UK Defence Business :
Our UK Defence business is a Sovereign software and systems centre of excellence. As well as developing and supporting UK wide and internationally deployed multi-domain command and control systems, our work is critical to the modern backbone of the Royal Navy. We pioneer - with fierce curiosity, dedication, and innovation, we seek to solve the world's most challenging problems.
Find out more : https://www.northropgrumman.com/careers/job-search-united-kingdom/
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Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.
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