Principal DevOps Engineer – CI/CD & Automation Lead

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU); Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 114,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is seeking a Principal or Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to advance automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure management from Aurora, CO or Morrisville, NC. You will drive build, deploy, provisioning, and monitoring standards within an Agile team.

The role requires active TS/CI polygraph, Linux administration experience, and strong Cloud and container tools expertise. Relocation assistance may be available and some travel is required.

Qualifications

• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance and CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s or higher with progressive experience; Master’s or PhD with extended experience.
• Experience in Agile software development and CI/CD environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automated testing and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.

Skills

Security clearance

Linux administration

Agile development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

NATS

Grafana/Prometheus/Loki

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is seeking a Principal or Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to advance automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure management from Aurora, CO or Morrisville, NC. You will drive build, deploy, provisioning, and monitoring standards within an Agile team.

The role requires active TS/CI polygraph, Linux administration experience, and strong Cloud and container tools expertise. Relocation assistance may be available and some travel is required.