Staff Cloud Engineer (Top Secret) - CI/CD & Automation

Northrop Grumman; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector. Based in Aurora, CO (or Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA), you will help plan and evolve infrastructure, automate CI/CD pipelines, and implement secure, scalable cloud solutions.

This role requires U.S. citizenship, an active Top Secret clearance with SCI access, and hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• US citizenship required for government-related work.
• Active TS clearance with SCI access required.
• Bachelor’s degree with years of experience as specified; more is acceptable.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.
• DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification or equivalent.
• Linux administration experience.
• Experience with Agile software development.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automation and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.
• Work in an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infra management.

Skills

US citizenship

Infrastructure as code

Linux administration

Agile software development

Education

Bachelor’s degree + relevant experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector. Based in Aurora, CO (or Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA), you will help plan and evolve infrastructure, automate CI/CD pipelines, and implement secure, scalable cloud solutions.

This role requires U.S. citizenship, an active Top Secret clearance with SCI access, and hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.