Senior Principal Cloud Engineer — Top Secret

Northrop Grumman; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 136,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance may be available

Sign-on bonus $7,500

Health insurance coverage

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr Principal Cloud Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector, with bases in Morrisville, NC, Aurora, CO or Sacramento, CA. The role focuses on building and evolving infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD pipelines within an Agile team.

The ideal candidate holds an active Top Secret clearance, CI poly, and a strong background in infrastructure-as-code, cloud platforms, and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application.
• Must have an active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application.
• US Citizenship required.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6 years with a Master’s; 4 years with a PhD or 4 extra years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.
• Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification.
• Linux or related OS administration experience.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to support rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automation, tests, and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and automated testing across CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infra management.
• Create scripts/templates to automate provisioning and management tasks.
• Work with developers to implement CI/CD systems.
• Coordinate with vendors and IT staff for issue resolution.
• Monitor and support installed systems and infrastructure.
• Develop scripts to increase efficiency and reduce manual effort.

Skills

Infrastructure-as-code

Agile development

Security clearance knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6 years with a Master's; 4 years with a PhD; or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree

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 a Sr Principal Cloud Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector, with bases in Morrisville, NC, Aurora, CO or Sacramento, CA. The role focuses on building and evolving infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD pipelines within an Agile team.

The ideal candidate holds an active Top Secret clearance, CI poly, and a strong background in infrastructure-as-code, cloud platforms, and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.