Senior Top Secret Cloud Automation Architect

Northrop Grumman; South Dakota; On-site; USD 136,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector seeks a Sr Principal Cloud Engineer for roles based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC, or Sacramento, CA. You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD and scalable deployment pipelines, collaborating with agile teams to advance rapid capability maturation and system reliability.

Requires TS clearance, CI Poly, US citizenship, and strong IaC experience. A sign-on bonus of $7,500 is offered and relocation support may be available.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance at time of application with SCI access
• Active CI Polygraph at time of application
• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience (or 6 years with a Master’s; 4 years with a PhD; or 4 extra years in lieu of a degree)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology
• CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification
• Linux/Unix administration experience
• Experience in an Agile software development framework
• Experience with at least one of the preferred qualifications listed

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment
• Integrate development pipelines with automation and CI/CD tools
• Define and implement build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards
• Ensure SCM, code quality and test coverage in CI/CD pipelines
• Work in an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management
• Create scripts/templates to automate provisioning and management tasks
• Collaborate with development teams to automate CI/CD systems
• Coordinate with vendors and IT for issue resolution
• Monitor and support installed systems and infrastructure
• Develop scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce manual effort
• Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems
• Install, configure, test and maintain OS, apps and system management tools
• Oversee security, backups and redundancy strategies
• Evaluate application performance and optimize with developers

Skills

Infrastructure-as-code

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes administration

AWS administration

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

NATS configuration

Big Bang (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki)

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector seeks a Sr Principal Cloud Engineer for roles based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC, or Sacramento, CA. You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD and scalable deployment pipelines, collaborating with agile teams to advance rapid capability maturation and system reliability.

Requires TS clearance, CI Poly, US citizenship, and strong IaC experience. A sign-on bonus of $7,500 is offered and relocation support may be available.