Senior Staff DevOps Engineer — Top Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus starting at $10,000

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

PTO for vacation/personal

Overtime eligibility

Discretionary bonus

Long term incentives

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector seeks an experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to augment our team. The role supports rapid capability maturation and deployment with automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure provisioning, working across Aurora, Morrisville, or Sacramento locations.

The position requires U.S. citizenship and active Top Secret clearance with SCI access, plus extensive IaC and Linux system administration experience.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required for government work.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• CI Polygraph must be current at application time.
• Bachelor's degree plus extensive relevant experience; additional degrees optional.
• Infrastructure-as-code and provisioning tech experience required.
• CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification.
• Linux/UNIX system administration experience.
• Experience in Agile software development; CI/CD experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infra to support rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with test-driven development and CI/CT frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for programs.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate in an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infra mgmt.
• Create environments supporting CD/CI tools using Agile methods.
• Develop scripts/templates to automate provisioning and management tasks.
• Work with vendors and IT for issue resolution.
• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Develop scripts to improve efficiency and reduce human intervention time.

Skills

US Citizenship

Top Secret clearance

CI Polygraph

Agile experience

Infrastructure as code

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’s Space Systems Sector seeks an experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to augment our team. The role supports rapid capability maturation and deployment with automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure provisioning, working across Aurora, Morrisville, or Sacramento locations.

The position requires U.S. citizenship and active Top Secret clearance with SCI access, plus extensive IaC and Linux system administration experience.