Principal DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, AWS & Kubernetes

Northrop Grumman; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 114,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Principal or Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer to advance automation across our Space Systems programs.

Location options include Morrisville, NC, with opportunities to base in Aurora, CO or Sacramento, CA, and require a Top Secret clearance and CI/Polygraph. You will lead build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards, integrate pipelines with automated testing, and work closely with development teams to deliver scalable infrastructure and secure

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance required.
• Active CI Polygraph required.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Experience with At least three of the preferred qualifications listed.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Collaborate with Agile teams on deployment and monitoring.
• Implement SCM, code quality and automated testing for CI/CD.
• Develop scripts to provision and manage infrastructure at scale.
• Support security, backup, and redundancy strategies.

Skills

CI/CD automation

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

NATS

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Jenkins

GitLab

Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Principal or Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer to advance automation across our Space Systems programs.

Location options include Morrisville, NC, with opportunities to base in Aurora, CO or Sacramento, CA, and require a Top Secret clearance and CI/Polygraph. You will lead build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards, integrate pipelines with automated testing, and work closely with development teams to deliver scalable infrastructure and secure