Senior Support Engineer

Company: Northrop Grumman
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Location: Cheltenham
Job Description:

Responsibilities

  • Perform hands‑on maintenance to ensure critical systems remain operational.
  • Monitor systems to ensure maximum availability.
  • Support the wider development team in working through critical issues and remediate them.
  • Identify technical risks or opportunities and proactively develop plans to mitigate and realise them.
  • Maintain accurate documentation, including a record of issues and faults along with solutions.
  • Implement DevOps and/or SRE best practices as required on relevant systems.
  • Support and debug complex live operational systems, including monitoring logs through tools such as Splunk or the ELK stack.

Qualifications

  • Ability to proactively manage own tasking and react to higher‑priority tasks.
  • Experience with Linux server administration.
  • Experience with technologies such as Apache NiFi, MinIO, and AWS S3.
  • Experience managing and patching Java and Python applications.
  • Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker, Podman, and deployment technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.
  • Highest level of UK Government clearance required.

Benefits

  • Optional compressed working schedule with every other Friday off.
  • Private health care, career‑development opportunities and performance bonuses.

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Posted: May 22nd, 2026