Principal DevOps Engineer — TS/CI Polygraph Ready

Northrop Grumman; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

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.