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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.

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.

Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity to Deliver the Nation’s Security. Together.

Salary: £75,000 - £108,000

Role Clearance Type: You must be able to gain and maintain the highest level of UK Government clearance

Location: Cheltenham House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

About Your Opportunity:

The Cloud Center of Excellence Team supports our engineers and customer projects in their delivery of solutions that are critical to National Security. Providing cutting edge development platforms, technical mentoring, ad-hoc consultancy and design reviews.

We deliver mission value by staying ahead of the curve, improving developer enabling solutions, tackling organisational blockers and enabling organisational agility. The Cloud Center of Excellence is at the forefront of taking National Security into the Cloud.

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:

• Working with stakeholders to design complex AWS and hybrid-cloud systems.
• Leading cross discipline teams to design and build complex solutions in AWS.
• Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling.
• Evangelising digital transformation and AWS tooling use both internally within Northrop Grumman and within our customers.
• Mentor and assist in the training and upskilling of engineers, whilst maintaining and expanding our own skill and certification set.

Your Experience:

• Demonstrable experience working within IT Systems Architecture, Design, Deployment and Administration, with recent roles in Technical or Team Leadership positions
• Amazon Web Services Certified to Professional level with experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud-based solutions
• Deep working knowledge of a number of AWS tools from the Database, Analytics & Machine Learning product families
• Experience of utilising AWS Landing Zones such as Control Tower for Organisation Management
• Experience of automating tasks using AWS CloudFormation, CKD, SDK or Terraform
• Experience of administration of Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Experience of designing, deploying and troubleshooting IPv4 Networking, including Subnetting, OSPF Routing, VLANs and VPNs
• Experience of other clouds such as Azure

Your Future Team:

“Since its inception, the Cloud Center of Excellence has been pushing the boundaries. Creating a hugely secure, yet permissive, developer environment for our projects. Enabling new streams of IOT and AI/ML work, mentoring and teaching our graduate cohorts, as well as providing consultancy and skills to projects where needed. The role of a Cloud Center of Excellence Architect is varied and you never know what will be coming next. To keep you at the cutting edge of technology we will provide you with training and time to innovate, along with the contacts across the industry to become a world expert!”

David, Cloud Center of Excellence Lead, National Security Solutions @ Northrop Grumman UK

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.

Northrop Grumman is committed to equality and diversity in our workplace. Northrop Grumman provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to an individual's protected status, including race/ethnic origin, color, nationality, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, gender identity/expression, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, religion or belief, creed, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status or characteristic.