Principal DevOps Engineer — TS/CI Polygraph Ready

Northrop Grumman

Morrisville (NC)

On-site

USD 114,000 - 171,000

Full time

17 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Savings plan
Paid holidays
Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join our team, with a focus on building scalable CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure management. The role supports rapid capability maturation and deployment across projects.

The candidate will work with Agile teams, implement automated testing and configuration management, and collaborate with vendors and IT staff to ensure secure, reliable systems in a government-cleared environment.

Qualifications

  • Active Top Secret security clearance in scope at start of application.
  • Current and within scope CI polygraph (CI Poly).
  • US Citizenship required.
  • Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience; 3 years with a Master’s.
  • Security+ beneficial but not required to start; must obtain within 6 months.
  • Experience administering Linux-based systems and Agile software development.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment.
  • Integrate development pipelines with test-driven development tools and CI/CD frameworks.
  • Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
  • Ensure SCM, code quality, and automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Work in an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.
  • Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools within Agile delivery.

Skills

CI/CD
Automation scripting
Linux administration
Agile
Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree
Master's degree

Tools

Terraform
Kubernetes administration
AWS administration
Flux
Helm
DynamoDB
NATS configuration
Grafana/Prometheus/Loki (Big Bang)
Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join our team, with a focus on building scalable CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure management. The role supports rapid capability maturation and deployment across projects.

The candidate will work with Agile teams, implement automated testing and configuration management, and collaborate with vendors and IT staff to ensure secure, reliable systems in a government-cleared environment.

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