DevOps Engineer - Level 3 or 4

Northrop Grumman; Schriever Space Force Base (CO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 3 or a Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 4 to join our team at Schriever Space Force Base, CO.

The role focuses on planning and evolving build, deployment, and automation pipelines in lab and development environments, collaborating across engineering teams to enable rapid and secure software delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline with 5+ years related experience, or Master's with 3+ years (or PhD with 1 year).
• Current active Secret clearance required to start.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Plan and maintain build, integration, test, and deployment environments.
• Implement scalable provisioning and deployment techniques.
• Monitor software quality with metrics and automated tests.
• Collaborate with development, production operations, and other teams to optimize workflows.
• Administer containerized, virtualized lab environments (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Podman, Docker).
• Perform system administration and hardware support; document configurations and inventories.

Skills

DevOps best practices

CI/CD pipelines

Container orchestration

Collaboration & teamwork

Agile methods

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Master's Degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Podman

Docker

SonarQube

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:

Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:

Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:

Secret

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10% of the Time Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

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 or a Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 4 to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. Our domain provides rewarding work that contributes to the latest advancements being made in the industry. The position is located on-site at Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, CO.

Position Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer - Level 3 or 4, you will plan and evolve processes and infrastructure that support rapid maturation and deployment of capabilities while sustaining a stable security posture and incorporating ongoing stakeholder feedback. You will work in lab and development environments composed of virtual, containerized, and bare-metal systems, focusing on build and deployment workflows, automation, and robust operating system practices.

You will integrate development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks. You will implement provisioning and deployment techniques via packaging, automation scripts, or manual distribution. You will function with agile principles to execute efficiently in an environment of continuous feedback. In this role, you will collaborate closely with software developers, production operations, and other engineering teams to support build environments, development workflows, and OS-related issues, while enabling quick and efficient software development and delivery using tools like Kubernetes, SonarQube, Podman, and related DevOps toolchains.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, design, and maintain build, integration, test, and deployment environments to enable rapid, reliable software delivery while ensuring security and stability.
• Implement and support repeatable, scalable provisioning and deployment techniques (e.g., packaging, componentization, containerization, and cloud-based distribution) with effective configuration management, versioning, and traceability.
• Monitor and improve software quality by implementing code quality and coverage metrics, integrating automated test suites, and enforcing quality controls across environments.
• Collaborate closely with development, production operations, and other engineering teams to optimize workflows, resolve environment issues, and communicate/prioritize planned and unplanned work to minimize disruption.
• Administer and support containerized, virtualized, and lab environments (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift, Podman, Docker), including rapid incident response, patching, system checkout, and restoration of critical services.
• Perform system administration and hardware support duties, including troubleshooting OS, network, and hardware problems; coordinating repair or replacement; and documenting configurations, procedures, changes, and infrastructure inventories.

Seeking candidates who find satisfaction in working on challenging and diverse assignments in collaborative settings across all levels.

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

This requisition may be filled at either a Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 3 or a Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 4.

Basic Qualifications - Principal DevOps Engineer - Level 3:

Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 5 years of related work experience, or a Master's Degree in STEM and 3 years of related work experience, or 1 year of related work experience with a PhD in STEM. A high school diploma and 9 years of related work experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.

Applicants must have a current, active in-scope U.S. Government issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start

Ability and flexibility to work alternate shifts if required to support business needs.

Ability and willingness to travel 10% to sup