Senior Cloud & DevSecOps Engineer (Azure/AWS) TS/SCI

Northrop Grumman; Ohio; On-site; USD 104,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal/Senior Principal Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and automate AWS and Azure environments for NASIC at Wright-Patterson AFB. You will build secure landing zones, apply IaC, and support mission-critical analysis with DevSecOps practices.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance, DoD RMF/STIG experience, and collaboration with cyber, networking, and application teams; travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 5 years of relevant experience (Principal Cloud Engineer).
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 8 years of relevant experience (Sr. Principal Cloud Engineer).
• Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance.
• Active CompTIA Security+, SecurityX, or CISSP certification.
• Minimum 3 years in DevOps, software development, or systems administration.
• Minimum of 1 year in 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 pipelines.
• Apply least-privilege access, centralized logging, auditing, and automated backups.
• Collaborate with cyber, networking, and application teams to meet DoD STIG/RMF requirements.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers to drive DevSecOps adoption.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud engineering

Python

Bash

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree in STEM

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Ansible

GitLab

GitHub

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker/Podman

Job description

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal/Senior Principal Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and automate AWS and Azure environments for NASIC at Wright-Patterson AFB. You will build secure landing zones, apply IaC, and support mission-critical analysis with DevSecOps practices.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance, DoD RMF/STIG experience, and collaboration with cyber, networking, and application teams; travel up to 10%.