DevOps Engineer - Level 2/3 (On-Site, Secret Clearance)

0891 DS - Advanced Weapons - Northridge; United States; On-site; USD 92,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Annual bonus

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a DevOps Engineer Level 2/3 to design end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for missile program codebases, integrating with Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, and the Atlassian suite. On-site in Northridge, CA, you will drive secure, scalable pipeline solutions across development streams.

The role emphasizes embedded software with RTOS like VxWorks and real-time constraints, plus collaboration across distributed teams to standardize processes and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Computer/Electrical Engineering or STEM field with 2 years of experience; or Master’s with 0 years of experience.
• Embedded systems experience with micro-controllers, DSPs, FPGAs, and RTOS such as VxWorks/FreeRTOS/QNX in Windows or Linux.
• Experience with Containers and Orchestration (Podman, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube).
• Experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure).
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Active US Government DoD Secret security clearance with ability to get cleared for SAP.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for missile program codebases, integrating with Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, and Atlassian suite.
• Develop and maintain pipeline automation scripts and build configurations (CMake, Visual Studio) to support CI, testing, and delivery of embedded software.
• Implement static analysis, code quality gates, and vulnerability scanning within the pipeline to enforce secure coding practices across C++, Python, and RTOS projects.
• Collaborate with embedded software engineers to tailor build/test processes for real-time, safety-critical applications.
• Coordinate across networks/sites, standardizing pipeline configurations and ensuring security posture across teams.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of pipeline architecture, build processes, security controls, and compliance evidence.

Skills

Embedded systems

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

Nexus

SonarQube

Atlassian tools

Container orchestration

Kubernetes

VxWorks/RTOS

C/C++

Python

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or STEM

Master’s degree (optional) in related field

Tools

Jira

Bitbucket

Confluence

Jenkins

Nexus

SonarQube

Podman/Kubernetes

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a DevOps Engineer Level 2/3 to design end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for missile program codebases, integrating with Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, and the Atlassian suite. On-site in Northridge, CA, you will drive secure, scalable pipeline solutions across development streams.

The role emphasizes embedded software with RTOS like VxWorks and real-time constraints, plus collaboration across distributed teams to standardize processes and documentation.