Senior AWS Cloud Landing Zone Engineer – Secret Onsite

Northrop Grumman; Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

9/80 work schedule

401k matching

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Computer Systems Analyst – Cloud Platform / Landing Zone Engineer to lead the design and security of a Secret-level AWS multi-account environment.

On-site in Redondo Beach, CA, or other locations, you will guide engineering, automation, and governance for distributed workloads. You will oversee IaC templates, account provisioning, and offline CI/CD pipelines, while ensuring adherence to DISA STIGs, NIST controls, and A&A processes.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree with 6+ IT years experience; or Bachelor's with 8+ years; or Associate with 10+; or HS with 12+ years.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Secret level security clearance.
• Linux operating system administration in DoD/IC classified environments.
• Experience administering Kubernetes-based environments (EKS/OpenShift) in classified contexts.
• Automation and configuration management: Ansible, Bash, Python in Linux/cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Sr. Principal Computer Systems Analyst for Cloud Platform / Landing Zone Engineer in classified contracts.
• Communicate with stakeholders; coordinate with internal/external teams.
• Oversee multi-system operations and network administration.
• Define, implement, and maintain enterprise-wide security standards and documentation.
• Lead testing, change management, and patching for major releases.
• Develop and enforce technical standards and SOPs.

Skills

Linux administration

AWS

Kubernetes

Automation tooling

Security/compliance

Education

Master's Degree in IT

Bachelor's Degree in IT

Associate Degree

High School Diploma

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform/OpenTofu

OpenShift

Ansible

Powershell

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr. Principal Computer Systems Analyst – Cloud Platform / Landing Zone Engineer to lead the design and security of a Secret-level AWS multi-account environment.

On-site in Redondo Beach, CA, or other locations, you will guide engineering, automation, and governance for distributed workloads. You will oversee IaC templates, account provisioning, and offline CI/CD pipelines, while ensuring adherence to DISA STIGs, NIST controls, and A&A processes.