Senior DevOps Engineer — Top Secret Clearance | $10k Sign-On

Northrop Grumman; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector. The role can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC, or Sacramento, CA.

You will drive automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure provisioning across programs, working with Agile teams to deliver end-to-end deployment and monitoring solutions. The position requires a TS clearance with SCI access, and a strong background in infrastructure-as-code, DevOps tooling, and Linux administration.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance with SCI access.
• Active CI Polygraph at time of application.
• Infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology experience.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework.
• Experience with DevOps toolchains and automation.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to support rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automation, testing, and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define and implement build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with Agile teams to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.

Skills

Security clearance

Infrastructure-as-code

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Agile software development

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM templates

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes administration

AWS administration

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

NATS configuration

Grafana/Prometheus/Loki

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector. The role can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC, or Sacramento, CA.

You will drive automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure provisioning across programs, working with Agile teams to deliver end-to-end deployment and monitoring solutions. The position requires a TS clearance with SCI access, and a strong background in infrastructure-as-code, DevOps tooling, and Linux administration.