Key Responsibilities

Responsible for the design and implementation of the CI/CD pipelines to deliver release products

System administration tasks, such as provisioning and managing servers and Virtual Machines (VMs)

Manage the security monitoring, system patching, and internal network connectivity

Coordinate with Infrastructure team to deploy and provide availability of VMs within the product development environment

Coordinate with the software engineers to automate the building of product artefacts across the development branches

Coordinate with the test engineers to deploy automated test execution against the test execution plan

Manage the virtual deployment of Windows platforms using Terraform templates

Maintain and develop relevant templates to deploy required Windows Operating System version and build updates

Maintain and manage the Jenkins jobs within the CI/CD pipeline

Address and investigate issues encountered within the workings of the CI/CD pipeline

Management and resolution of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) raised across dependent development components

Key qualifications / experience

Continuous Integration / Continuous Development pipeline experience

Building applications using Jenkins

Manage containers using container orchestrator Docker

Build custom scripts to automate tasks using Ansible, Node.js or Java

Source code management using Git/Bitbucket

Administration experience of Linux and Windows Operating Systems

Experience of automating tasks using Ansible and Terraform

Experience of administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare and Docker

Working practices, such as Git Branching and release schedules

Preferred qualifications / experience

Experience of secure virtualisation and containerisation system design.

Experience of designing, deploying and troubleshooting networking, including subnetting, VLANs and VPNs.

Experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud based solutions such as Amazon Web Service (AWS).

Experience of secure network architecture design

Other requirements

Travel requirements: Occasional UK travel may be required to attend team/customer meetings and training activities

Looking for flexibility? At Northrop Grumman UK we have hybrid working arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about what may be possible.

Clearance requirements: Post-holder must be able to obtain and maintain a U.K. Government SC security clearance