UK CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE TYPE: UK-Highest Level of Government Clearance TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer (AWS) As a critical part of the Infrastructure Team, we support our customers in their journey to refactor, replatform and rehost their mission critical systems into AWS. We deliver mission value by transforming our customers systems, improving reliability, reducing costs and enabling organisational agility by utilising Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps techniques. 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 as part of a team to design, build and maintain AWS and hybrid-cloud systems Administering systems based on Linux and Windows operating systems Maintaining and troubleshooting IP networking systems for AWS and hybrid-cloud systems Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications Your Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science based subject, equivalent qualification or equivalent relevant experience; Amazon Web Services Certified to Practitioner or Associate level with experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud based solutions; Experience of administration of Linux and Windows Operating Systems within large corporate environments; Experience of troubleshooting IPv4 Networking, including Subnetting Routing; Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python; Your Future Team: “Life as a Cloud Engineer is an exceptionally rewarding role where no two days are truly the same. You can be troubleshooting some Python code in a Lambda function, designing complex solutions, presenting to the customer and building that same solution using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps tooling. This variety helps the role feel ‘fresh’ and I always finish each day feeling like I’ve learnt something new!” Kris, Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer, National Security Solutions @ Northrop Grumman UK Our focused and flexible Infrastructure Team consists of industry leading practitioners in engineering and systems administration across all specialisms and experience, working with multiple customer sets and system classifications, on both public cloud and on premise. We work collaboratively to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems, providing our team a broad range of experiences from which to develop new skills and learning across the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets. 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 hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce. We are a pioneering company. With careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space – our 90,000 employees work as one to defend and define the future. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will give you every opportunity to do your best work. Working together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines, we share a drive to push the boundaries of science, technology and engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide.