DevOps Engineer - Level 3 AHT - Northrop Grumman

OpenTalent; Schriever Space Force Base (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 3 to design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for modeling and simulation environments at facilities in Colorado Springs and Schriever Space Force Base, CO. You will ensure secure automation, containerization, and scalable infrastructure across missions.

The role requires a strong background in DevOps tooling (Jenkins, GitLab, Bamboo, Docker/Podman, SonarQube) and a U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years of related experience; or Master’s with 3+ years; or PhD with 1+ year.
• Current, active, in-scope U.S. Government issued Secret clearance at time of application (required to start)
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to support business needs
• Experience with containerization and container runtime technologies (Docker, Podman, or similar)

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable software delivery
• Automate infrastructure deployment, scaling, and management using configuration management and scripting tools
• Implement and manage containerization technologies (Docker, Podman) including rootless/rootful configurations
• Collaborate closely with development and test teams to improve build, integration, and deployment processes
• Integrate automated testing and quality/security tools into CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor system and pipeline performance and implement improvements for reliability and availability
• Ensure security, compliance, and configuration baselines are implemented and maintained across environments
• Work with identity and credential management tools to support secure automation and access control

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Security & compliance

Credential management

Automation & scripting

Collaboration with dev/test teams

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab Runner

Bamboo

Docker

Podman

SonarQube

Gherkin

Cucumber

Job description

Description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit (BU) has an exciting career opportunity for a Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 3 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. Our domain provides rewarding work that contributes to the latest advancements being made in the industry. This position supports the Modeling and Simulation Vistas - Threat and Advanced Simulations Development (MSV-TASD) program and will split time between a Northrop Grumman facility in Colorado Springs and Schriever Space Force Base, CO.

This role requires candidates to be onsite daily, with very limited remote/hybrid work available.

Position Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer - Level 3, you will work in a collaborative environment to understand system requirements and design, implement, and maintain DevOps solutions using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab Runner, Bamboo, Docker, Podman, SonarQube, Gherkin, Cucumber, and others to enable efficient, secure, and repeatable software development and delivery. You will leverage containerization technologies and secure credential and identity management solutions to support our distributed modeling and simulation environments.

Essential Functions:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable software delivery
• Automate infrastructure deployment, scaling, and management using configuration management and scripting tools
• Implement and manage containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman), including rootless vs. rootful configurations where appropriate
• Collaborate closely with development and test teams to improve build, integration, and deployment processes
• Integrate automated testing and quality/security tools (e.g., static analysis, code quality, coverage) into CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor system and pipeline performance and implement improvements to ensure reliability and availability
• Ensure security, compliance, and configuration baselines are implemented and maintained across environments
• Work with identity and credential management tools (e.g., credential managers, service accounts) to support secure automation and access control

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited institution and 5 years of related experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related experience.
• Current, active, in-scope U.S. Government issued Secret security clearance at the time of application (required to start)
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to support business needs
• Experience with containerization and container runtime technologies (Docker, Podman, or similar)