Site Reliability Engineer (AHT)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: NoCLEARANCE TYPE: Top SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.Northrop Grumman's Site Reliability Engineers are tasked with guaranteeing the dependability of applications they don't build, setting user focused reliability targets, instrumenting those metrics, and developing the automation and runbooks needed to recover from failures. They work closely with development teams to embed operational quality early in the software lifecycle and assume primary responsibility for resolving production issues when they arise. Their skill set includes troubleshooting distributed systems, handling incidents, and converting those experiences into lasting reliability enhancements. On a daily basis, their work is organized around four key areas: incident management, reducing manual toil, evaluating reliability, and enabling platform capabilities.
This position may be filled at as a level 2 or 3 based on the qualifications below and is contingent on funding.
Basic Qualifications:

Site Reliability Engineer (Level 2): Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 2 years of related experience OR a master's degree with 0 years of experience
Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Level 3): Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline with 5 years of related experience OR a master's degree with 3 years of experience
Must have the ability to obtain a Department of War Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance (TS/SCI)
Have or obtain IAT Level II certification such as SecurityX (formerly CASP+) or Security+ within 90 days.
Minimum of three years of experience In Systems Administration.
Linux/networking fundamentals
Demonstrated understanding of systems thinking, including the ability to identify inter dependencies, assess potential blast radius, and analyze how multiple components can fail together to ensure resilient infrastructure.
Basic knowledge of observability fundamentals, encompassing more than the three core signals (logs, metrics, traces) and demonstrating the ability to select, implement, and leverage telemetry data to optimize services and enhance engineering productivity.