Staff Cloud Engineer, Top Secret: CI/CD & Automation Lead

Northrop Grumman; South Dakota; On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer. This key role can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA, and requires active Top Secret clearance with SCI access.

You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and secure software supply chains in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. The position offers relocation assistance, a sign-on bonus, and a competitive salary range of $169,000 to $265,600 per year.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI access.
• CI Polygraph at time of application.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience (or 10 years with a Master’s; 8 years with a PhD; or 4 years additional experience in lieu of degree).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning tech.
• Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification.
• Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience in Agile software development.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automation, tests, and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Work on an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infra management.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

CI Polygraph

Bachelor’s degree required

Infrastructure as code

Agile development

DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II

Linux administration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

AWS

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

Grafana/Prometheus/Loki

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer. This key role can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA, and requires active Top Secret clearance with SCI access.

You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and secure software supply chains in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. The position offers relocation assistance, a sign-on bonus, and a competitive salary range of $169,000 to $265,600 per year.