Senior DevOps Engineer – DoD Secret, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Northrop Grumman; Bellevue (NE); On-site; USD 98,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal/Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to support CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and platform infrastructure. You will work with software engineers, cyber operators, and platform teams to develop, secure, deploy, and sustain mission applications across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities include configuring and maintaining DevOps infrastructure, managing Kubernetes or Docker workloads, and ensuring system reliability in production.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret security clearance.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools.
• Experience with OCI container tech (Docker/Podman) and Kubernetes.
• Linux OS experience, VMs, storage, networking.
• Git experience and production troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Develop, secure, deploy, and sustain mission applications and infrastructure.
• Support CI/CD pipeline implementation and maintenance.
• Manage containerized workloads and cloud/hybrid environments.
• Collaborate with software, cyber, and platform teams across the lifecycle.
• Monitor, log, and troubleshoot production systems.

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud & container platforms

Linux

Git

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Agile practices

Monitoring & troubleshooting

Education

BS in STEM

MS in STEM

Tools

Jenkins

Gitlab CI

Kubernetes

Docker/Podman

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Harbor

ArgoCD

Grafana

Prometheus

Helm

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal/Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to support CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and platform infrastructure. You will work with software engineers, cyber operators, and platform teams to develop, secure, deploy, and sustain mission applications across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities include configuring and maintaining DevOps infrastructure, managing Kubernetes or Docker workloads, and ensuring system reliability in production.