DevSecOps & Software Infra Engineer — CI/CD, Containers

Northrop Grumman

United States

On-site

USD 79,000 - 148,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Sector is seeking a DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer (Level 2/3) in Chandler, AZ to strengthen the software factory supporting flight software, algorithms, and simulation development.

You will improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines, containerized development environments, and package management across Linux-based systems, using Podman, OCI images, and VS Code containers. The role requires a U.S. Government Secret clearance.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE or related STEM with 2 years of experience; or Master's degree with 1 year of professional experience.
An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Experience developing or supporting software using C++ or Python.
Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds or tests, or software-development environment troubleshooting.
Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting container images or containerized environments using Podman, Docker, or OCI-compatible platforms.
Experience managing software packages or dependencies in Linux-based development or execution environments, including working knowledge of Linux command-line tools.
Ability to diagnose and resolve issues spanning software, automation, containers, package dependencies, and infrastructure components.
Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate across technical disciplines.
Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

Maintain and improve GitLab repositories, branching workflows, integrations, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software-factory operations.
Build, configure, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot containerized development and execution environments using Podman, OCI-compatible container images, and Visual Studio Code development containers.
Create and maintain container definitions, build scripts, base images, reusable development environments, and repeatable container-image build, release, update, distribution, and retirement processes.
Manage software packages, dependencies, repositories, version compatibility, and configuration baselines across containerized and Linux-based development, test, and execution environments.
Develop automation for building, testing, code review, deployment, vulnerability scanning, metrics collection, and software-factory operations to reduce manual effort and improve repeatability.
Diagnose and resolve complex build, test, deployment, environment, infrastructure, container, package, and large-scale software-runset issues; perform root-cause analysis across GitLab pipelines, development environments, and C++ and Python applications.
Monitor software-factory reliability, performance, utilization, and health metrics; identify recurring failure patterns and implement sustainable improvements.
Support large-scale software testing and execution, including high-performance computing-related scripts, workflows, resource utilization, job execution, and performance optimization when applicable.
Collaborate with flight software, algorithms, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, test, performance, and infrastructure teams to resolve cross-functional issues and improve engineering workflows.
Create and maintain troubleshooting guides, release notes, tool configurations, operational documentation, and reusable development practices.
Other duties as assigned.