Principal DevOps Engineer - CI/CD, Infra Automation

Northrop Grumman; South Dakota; On-site; USD 88,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer. The role supports rapid capability maturation across Aurora, CO; Morrisville, NC; or Sacramento, CA, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and secure operations.

Responsibilities include defining deployment standards, automating infrastructure, and collaborating with development teams to build scalable, resilient systems while ensuring security and compliance.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance at time of application.
• CI Polygraph clearance for CI/Poly requirement.
• US citizenship is required.
• Level 2 or Level 3/Principal with degree/experience mix.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation.
• Integrate development pipelines with automated testing and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infra management.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer. The role supports rapid capability maturation across Aurora, CO; Morrisville, NC; or Sacramento, CA, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and secure operations.

Responsibilities include defining deployment standards, automating infrastructure, and collaborating with development teams to build scalable, resilient systems while ensuring security and compliance.