Infrastructure Lead - Staff DevOps Engineer

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 169,000 - 265,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman seeks a senior DevSecOps leader to drive process and infrastructure evolution for rapid capability maturation. You will guide automation, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing across Agile teams while ensuring secure, scalable deployments.

The role requires Top Secret/Sci access, polygraph readiness, and Security+ within 60 days, with 12+ years in software development and strong Cmd line. Expect on-site work in supported locations.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software development experience with a related bachelor’s degree, or equivalent.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI access; polygraph required.
• Experience leading Agile teams and DevSecOps initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and evolution of processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation.
• Integrate development pipelines leveraging automation with CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and code coverage with automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead the Agile team to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment and infrastructure management.

Skills

Leadership experience

Agile methodologies

Technical communication

DevSecOps practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in software development

Tools

Ansible

Jenkins

Jira

Terraform

Git/Version Control

Job description

Location: This position can be based in Aurora, Colorado or Morrisville, North Carolina.

Relocation Assistance: No relocation assistance available.

Clearance Required: Yes, Top Secret; SCI approval/access required; polygraph required; Security+ certification within 60 days.

Travel: Yes, 10% of the time.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and evolution of processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Lead the integration of 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.
• Ensure implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Lead the Agile development team to deliver end‑to‑end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.
• Lead the building and configuration of delivery environments supporting CI/CD tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
• Lead the creation of 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.
• Lead the monitoring and support for all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Lead the development of custom scripts to increase system efficiency and reduce human intervention time on tasks.
• Lead the design of information and operational support systems.
• Lead the installation, configuration, testing and maintenance of the operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Lead the evaluation of application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with developers.

Basic Qualifications

• United States Citizenship required.
• Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
• Willingness to submit and successfully pass a polygraph.
• Willing and able to obtain Security+ certification within 60 days.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of software development experience; 10 years with a Master’s; 8 years with a Ph.D.; 16+ years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Comprehensive technical expertise in a variety of DevSecOps toolkits, including Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, Terraform, Git/Version Control Software, or comparable technologies.
• Ability to express technical information clearly at different organizational levels.
• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and AWS Cloud architecture, security, and management.
• Experience successfully leading teams.
• Experience with Agile processes and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• CISM, CISSP or other Security Certifications (Required in first 60 days).
• Favorably adjudicated CI Polygraph.
• Experience creating, developing, and implementing solutions to address infrastructure and security requirements.
• Experience identifying the needs for building automation, designing, and implementing CI/CD solutions.
• Build or maintain CI/CD building blocks and shared libraries proactively for app and development teams to enable quicker build and deployment.
• Successful experience leading a team of DevOps Engineers and/or System Administrators.
• Experience with Software development and deploying software into a cloud environment.
• Experience with successfully maintaining and updating an operational software baseline.

Salary

$169,000.00 - $265,600.00 (base salary; additional compensation may include overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonus, and long‑term incentives).

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company paid holidays.
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.