DevSecOps & Software Infrastructure Engineer — Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 79,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance may be available

9/80 schedule with every other Friday

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer (Level 2/3) in Chandler, AZ. The role focuses on strengthening the software factory for flight software, modeling, and simulation, including GitLab CI/CD, containers, and automated testing. On-site work with 9/80 schedule.

You will collaborate across teams to improve reliability, performance, and security of engineering workflows, while creating repeatable development practices and troubleshooting guides.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related STEM with 2 years of relevant experience; or a master's with 1 year; 4 years in lieu accepted.
• Experience developing or supporting C++ or Python software.
• Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds/tests, or troubleshooting.
• Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting container images using Podman, Docker, or OCI-compatible platforms.
• Experience managing software packages or dependencies in Linux-based development or execution environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve GitLab repositories, branching workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software-factory operations.
• Build, configure, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot containerized development and execution environments using Podman and OCI-compatible images.
• Create and maintain container definitions, base images, reusable development environments, and repeatable build/release processes.
• Manage software packages, dependencies, repositories, version compatibility, and configuration baselines across containerized and Linux 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 and C++/Python apps.
• Collaborate with flight software, algorithms, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, test, performance, and infrastructure teams.

Skills

C++

Python

Git

CI/CD

Containers

Podman

Linux

Automation

Diagnostics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related STEM

Master's degree in related STEM (optional)

Tools

Podman

Docker

OCI-compatible containers

VS Code development containers

GitLab

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer (Level 2/3) in Chandler, AZ. The role focuses on strengthening the software factory for flight software, modeling, and simulation, including GitLab CI/CD, containers, and automated testing. On-site work with 9/80 schedule.

You will collaborate across teams to improve reliability, performance, and security of engineering workflows, while creating repeatable development practices and troubleshooting guides.