Senior Principal Cloud Engineer — Top Secret/CI Ready

Northrop Grumman; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr Principal Cloud Engineer for Space Systems, with flexibility for Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC, or Sacramento, CA. You will lead automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure provisioning across agile teams to accelerate capability deployment.

The role requires Top Secret clearance, DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II demonstrated, and a strong background in IaC, cloud platforms, and Linux system administration. Hybrid/onsite work options available in multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance required at time of application with SCI access.
• 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.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification.
• Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
• 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 and CI/CD test frameworks.
• Define and implement build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and code coverage with automated testing.
• Work in an Agile team to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infra management.
• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools.
• Create scripts/templates to automate provisioning and management tasks.
• Collaborate with development teams to automate CI/CD systems.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Linux systems

Agile methodologies

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM templates

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

AWS administration

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Sr Principal Cloud Engineer for Space Systems, with flexibility for Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC, or Sacramento, CA. You will lead automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure provisioning across agile teams to accelerate capability deployment.

The role requires Top Secret clearance, DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II demonstrated, and a strong background in IaC, cloud platforms, and Linux system administration. Hybrid/onsite work options available in multiple sites.