Onsite DevSecOps Engineer – Secret Clearance

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

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.