Senior Principal Cloud Engineer – TS Clearance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus starting at $7,500

Health insurance

Paid time off

Company paid holidays

Savings plan

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Sr Principal Cloud Engineer to join a high-impact team delivering scalable cloud solutions. Based in Morrisville, NC, Aurora, CO, or Sacramento, CA, you will drive CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure-as-code efforts within an Agile environment.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance and a strong background in Linux, IaC, and cloud platforms. A sign-on bonus is offered and relocation assistance may be available, along with

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required at time of application.
• CI/CD and Agile software development experience.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.
• Linux administration and DoD/DOD IA/ IAM experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation.
• Automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management within CI/CD pipelines.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning and monitoring standards.
• Ensure SCM, code quality and automated testing across pipelines.
• Work in an Agile team delivering end-to-end automation.
• Create scripts/templates for automated provisioning.
• Collaborate with development teams and vendors for problem resolution.
• Monitor systems and optimize performance with developers.

Skills

Agile methodology

Linux administration

CI/CD automation

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 8+ years

Master’s degree + 6+ years

PhD + 4 years

4 years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

AWS

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

NATS

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Jenkins

GitLab

Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Sr Principal Cloud Engineer to join a high-impact team delivering scalable cloud solutions. Based in Morrisville, NC, Aurora, CO, or Sacramento, CA, you will drive CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure-as-code efforts within an Agile environment.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance and a strong background in Linux, IaC, and cloud platforms. A sign-on bonus is offered and relocation assistance may be available, along with