Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS) is seeking a Staff Engineer to maintain and enhance capabilities in support of DAF CLOUDworks at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in Rome, NY. DAF CLOUDworks is a rapidly growing secure cloud program that encompasses 10+ teams. These teams span all different areas of cloud engineering including information security, infrastructure development, and cloud migration. You will be an active part of one of these teams providing technical support of customers leveraging DAF CLOUDworks. Along with operations and sustainment, DAF CLOUDworks focuses on modifying and enhancing offerings to implement new requirements, enhance functionality, increase efficiency, or lower operating/deployment.
Requirements
- Expertise with infrastructure components, including network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts
- Strong technical knowledge of Cloud-based technologies (AWS Platform, Azure Platform, Google Cloud)
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices
- Experience with networking
- 5+ years of experience scripting in Bash or PowerShell
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence)
- Expertise leveraging git for code management (ArgoCD, Flux, Gitlab)
Responsibilities
- maintain and enhance capabilities in support of DAF CLOUDworks
- providing technical support of customers leveraging DAF CLOUDworks
- modifying and enhancing offerings to implement new requirements, enhance functionality, increase efficiency, or lower operating/deployment
- Be able to follow Agile Development process and full life cycle development
- Interface with multiple, geographically disbursed teams and effectively communicate project statuses and blockers
Other
- Have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, organizational, and multi-tasking skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
- CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
