DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer - Position qualifies for sign-on bonus starting at $5k

Northrop Grumman; South Dakota; On-site; USD 88,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer. The role supports rapid capability maturation across Aurora, CO; Morrisville, NC; or Sacramento, CA, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and secure operations.

Responsibilities include defining deployment standards, automating infrastructure, and collaborating with development teams to build scalable, resilient systems while ensuring security and compliance.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance at time of application.
• CI Polygraph clearance for CI/Poly requirement.
• US citizenship is required.
• Level 2 or Level 3/Principal with degree/experience mix.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation.
• Integrate development pipelines with automated testing and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infra management.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: No

## 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’s Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer. This position can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.
• Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.
• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
• Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
• Work closely with development teams to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.
• Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.

This position can be staffed at a Level 2 or Principal level , based on the basic qualifications below.

This position offers a sign-on bonus starting at $5,000.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
• Must have an active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application, current and within scope.
• United States Citizenship
• Level 2: Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience; 0 years with a Master's. 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Level 3 / Principal: Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience; 3 years with a Master's. 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification
• Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework

Preferred Qualifications:

• Terraform
• Ansible
• CloudFormation
• Azure Bicep/ARM templates
• Pulumi
• OpenTufo
• Kubernetes administration
• AWS administration
• Flux
• Helm
• DynamoDB
• NATS configuration
• Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
• Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Primary Level Salary Range: $87,600.00 - $137,600.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 - $171,000.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.