DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer - Level 2/3 (Chandler) (AHT)

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

On-site work

9/80 schedule with every other Friday

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Chandler, Arizona seeks an early- to mid-career DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer (Level 2/3) for an on-site role. You will strengthen the software factory supporting flight software, modeling, and simulation, improving pipelines, containers, and build systems.

You will work with GitLab CI/CD, Podman containers, Linux environments, and C++/Python applications, resolving complex issues and enabling scalable, repeatable workflows across teams.

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 HPC‑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.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Containerization

Podman

OCI-compatible containers

VS Code development containers

Linux environments

C++

Python

Automation

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Podman

OCI container images

Visual Studio Code containers

Linux containers

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Interim 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.

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman's Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer - Level 2/3 located in Chandler, Arizona, you'll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

The Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) Flight Software Team is seeking an early- to mid-career DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer to strengthen the software factory supporting flight software, algorithms, and modeling-and-simulation development. You will improve the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of engineering workflows by supporting GitLab CI/CD pipelines, containerized development environments, software-package management, automated testing, and large-scale software execution.

In this role, you will work across Podman and OCI-compatible containers, Visual Studio Code development containers, Linux-based environments, infrastructure automation, and C++ and Python applications. You will investigate and resolve complex issues involving build and test pipelines, containers, dependencies, development environments, and software runsets, helping teams distinguish infrastructure issues from software, model, or flight‑dynamics defects.

You will help establish and mature reliable, repeatable processes for container builds, package and dependency management, automated testing, software releases, and large-scale execution environments. Your work will improve environment consistency, reduce development interruptions and repetitive manual effort, and enable engineering teams to focus on delivering mission‑critical capabilities.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

In this job, you will:

• 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.

If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!

This position is contingent upon you obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a