Lead DevOps Engineer, Manchester

As a Lead DevOps Engineer at Northrop Grumman UK, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing and maintaining the critical CI/CD infrastructure that powers our services. You will be self‑driven, organised and passionate about building elegant, stable and scalable solutions across a wide variety of exciting projects with complex challenges. Your leadership will guide the team through both technical and delivery challenges to ensure customer needs are met.

• Own the team’s deliverables, working with the Scrum Master to define a clear delivery path aligned to customer requirements.
• Lead and contribute across the entire CI/CD lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including product, front‑end development and QA, to ensure integrated delivery.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, helping to grow capability and support career development across the team.

• UK citizenship required.
• Highest Level UK Government security clearance.
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in CI/CD, containerisation, deployment technologies, and cloud platforms (Jenkins, Kubernetes, IaC, Docker, AWS).
• Proven experience in designing, developing and deploying CI/CD solutions.
• Experience in Linux system administration or similar operating systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across live production environments, including high‑level networking, server and application issues.
• Understanding of database technologies such as SQL, Elasticsearch or MongoDB.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and problem‑solving skills, ideally with experience working in an agile environment.
• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Travel required approximately 10% of the time.

• Flexible working options, including hybrid working and an optional compressed fortnight.
• Private healthcare Cash health plan.
• Holiday buy/sell scheme.
• Career development programmes and specialist training opportunities.
• Performance‑based bonuses.

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.

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