Senior Cloud & DevSecOps Engineer - Azure & AWS

Northrop Grumman; Ohio; Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems at NASIC seeks a Principal/Sr. Principal Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and automate secure AWS and Azure environments for mission-critical analysis at Wright-Patterson AFB. The role emphasizes IaC, DevSecOps, and collaboration with cyber, networking, and application teams.

The position requires TS/SCI clearance, cloud experience, and DoD RMF/STIG-aligned practices, with opportunity for growth and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Level 4 requires a Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 8 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s with 6 years of experience.
• Active Department of Defense Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
• Active CompTIA Security+, SecurityX, or CISSP certification.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in DevOps, software development, or systems administration.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience with cloud-based technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale secure AWS and Azure landing zones and shared services for NASIC workloads.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible) and Git-based CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, or cloud-native pipelines).
• Apply least-privilege access, centralized logging, auditing, and automated backups across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with cyber, networking, and application teams to meet DoD STIG/RMF requirements.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers to drive adoption of DevSecOps best practices.

Skills

DoD TS/SCI clearance

Cloud engineering

Terraform/OpenTofu/Ansible

AWS/Azure experience

CI/CD tooling

Security as code

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Ansible

GitLab

GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems at NASIC seeks a Principal/Sr. Principal Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and automate secure AWS and Azure environments for mission-critical analysis at Wright-Patterson AFB. The role emphasizes IaC, DevSecOps, and collaboration with cyber, networking, and application teams.

The position requires TS/SCI clearance, cloud experience, and DoD RMF/STIG-aligned practices, with opportunity for growth and competitive compensation.