Staff Cloud Engineer — Top Secret Cleared

Northrop Grumman; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Annual bonuses

Health insurance

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer for its Space Systems Sector. The role supports multiple base locations including Sacramento, CA, and requires Top Secret clearance and US citizenship.

You will drive automation, build and deploy pipelines, and ensure robust infrastructure and security practices across programs. Responsibilities include configuring delivery environments, implementing CI/CD, and collaborating with development teams to automate provisioning and monitoring.

Qualifications

• US citizenship and Top Secret clearance required.
• Active CI/QA pipelines experience (CI/CD) in an Agile environment.
• Linux/Unix administration expertise.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technologies.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to support rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automation, test-driven development, and CI/CD.
• Define and implement build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for programs.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test coverage in CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

Agile software development

Linux administration

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 12+ years experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes administration

AWS administration

Flux

Helm

DynamoDB

NATS configuration

Grafana/Prometheus/Loki

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer for its Space Systems Sector. The role supports multiple base locations including Sacramento, CA, and requires Top Secret clearance and US citizenship.

You will drive automation, build and deploy pipelines, and ensure robust infrastructure and security practices across programs. Responsibilities include configuring delivery environments, implementing CI/CD, and collaborating with development teams to automate provisioning and monitoring.