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Principal / Senior Principal Software Engineer - DevOps (*Active TS/SCI required)

Northrop Grumman

Contract

Fairfax, VA

Job description

Long term contract-Denver CO

Hybrid

Pay $100 on w-2

Job id:83172

Our team is looking for a DevOps engineer with at least 6 years cloud and Kubernetes experience including specialization with Argo Workflows

Our project involves building automations for a greenfield managed service product in AWS and we are looking for candidates who are interested in building workflow-based automations.

Core Technical Skills:

DevOps Engineer with AWS/Kubernetes/Argo Workflows Focus

Required:

Understanding of Kubnernetes principles

Strong familiarity with AWS.

Creating and managing Argo Workflows

Experience invoking workflows across EKS cluster and AWS account boundaries.

Optimizing Argo Workflow deployments for performance and scalability

Collaborating with development and operations teams to ensure alignment with application requirements

Ability to troubleshoot Kubenetes (EKS) and Argo Workflow issues.

Experience with languages like Bash, Python, or Go for automating tasks and implementing workflow functionality.

Monitoring and logging tooling for observing Argo Workflows.

Nice to Have:

Previous experience building SaaS solutions and automation solutions.

Deploying/managing Argo Workflows in support of production systems including HA/DR approaches.

Related DevOps & CI/CD

Required:

GitLab: Project creation, file templating, pipeline management

Nice-to-have:

Helm templating

Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps

Terraform for managing underlying infrastructure.

Soft Skills:

Strong problem-solving abilities

Excellent communication skills for client interaction

Self-directed learning and research

Attention to detail for complex integrations

Ability to work independently in a low-supervision environment

Quality ownership mindset

Job Type: Contract

Pay: From $100.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Work Location: In person