Senior Principal Cloud Engineer - CI/CD & Automation Lead

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 136,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Sr Principal Cloud Engineer for Space Systems, with locations in Aurora, CO; Morrisville, NC; or Sacramento, CA. You will lead automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management within an Agile team, leveraging Terraform, Ansible, and cloud services.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance, CI/CD experience, and DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II, along with a Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of related work.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance required at time of application and SCI access.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or 6 years with a Master’s, or 4 years with a PhD, or equivalent.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technologies.
• DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification and Security+ CE or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with test-driven development tools and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and code coverage with automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate in an Agile team to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment and infrastructure management.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Linux admin

Agile development

DoD 8570 IAT/IAM

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Sr Principal Cloud Engineer for Space Systems, with locations in Aurora, CO; Morrisville, NC; or Sacramento, CA. You will lead automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management within an Agile team, leveraging Terraform, Ansible, and cloud services.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance, CI/CD experience, and DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II, along with a Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of related work.