Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer (AHT) - Position qualifies for sign-on bonus starting at $7k

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 136,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Sr Principal Cloud Engineer for Space Systems, with locations in Aurora, CO; Morrisville, NC; or Sacramento, CA. You will lead automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management within an Agile team, leveraging Terraform, Ansible, and cloud services.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance, CI/CD experience, and DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II, along with a Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of related work.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance required at time of application and SCI access.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or 6 years with a Master’s, or 4 years with a PhD, or equivalent.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technologies.
• DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification and Security+ CE or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with test-driven development tools and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and code coverage with automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate in an Agile team to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment and infrastructure management.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Linux admin

Agile development

DoD 8570 IAT/IAM

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret TRAVEL: No Description At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come.

Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the front‑line of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way.

Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible.

Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced Sr Principal Cloud Engineer.

This position can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test‑driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.
• Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end‑end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.
• Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
• Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
• Work closely with development teams to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.
• Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
• Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.
• Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.

This position offers a sign on bonus starting at $7,500.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
• Must have an active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application, current and within scope.
• United States Citizenship
• 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
• Experience with at least 1 of the preferred qualifications below

Preferred Qualifications:

• Terraform
• Ansible
• CloudFormation
• Azure
• Bicep/ARM templates
• Pulumi
• OpenTofu
• Kubernetes administration
• AWS administration
• Flux
• Helm
• DynamoDB
• NATS configuration
• Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
• Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Primary Level Salary Range:

$135,800.00 - $213,400.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Benefits:

• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO.

U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

We are a pioneering company. With careers across all areas: air, cyber, land, sea and space – our 90,000 employees work as one to defend and define the future.

Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will give you every opportunity to do your best work.

Working together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines, we share a drive to push the boundaries of science, technology and engineering to meet the ever evolving needs of our customers worldwide.