Senior DevOps Engineer - CI/CD & Automation Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to drive automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation across programs. You will work with Agile teams to deploy and monitor systems while maintaining high security and reliability.

The role requires active TS clearance and CI polygraph, US citizenship, and a background in Linux-based operations. Relocation assistance and a strong benefits package are available.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance
• Active CI Polygraph
• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years relevant experience; 3 years with a Master
• Linux administration experience
• Experience in an Agile development framework
• Experience with multiple listed tools and cloud services (see preferred qualifications)

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve infrastructure for programs
• Automate pipelines and CI/CD with test-driven development
• Define build, deploy, provisioning, and monitoring standards
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test automation in CI/CD
• Work in an Agile team to automate deployment and infra management
• Configure delivery environments for CD/CI tools
• Create scripts to automate provisioning and management tasks
• Collaborate with developers to automate CI/CD systems
• Monitor and support installed systems and infrastructure
• Oversee security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements with developers

Skills

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Linux

Agile

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Bamboo

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Helm

Flux

DynamoDB

NATS

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to drive automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation across programs. You will work with Agile teams to deploy and monitor systems while maintaining high security and reliability.

The role requires active TS clearance and CI polygraph, US citizenship, and a background in Linux-based operations. Relocation assistance and a strong benefits package are available.