Staff DevOps Engineer

Northrop Grumman; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 177,000 - 265,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Life and disability insurance

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer in Aurora, CO. This role involves planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to support rapid capability deployment, ensuring Software Configuration Management, and automating deployment processes.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree, 12+ years of experience, and a Top Secret/SCI clearance. Strong skills in Linux Administration, CI/CD pipelines with GitLab or Jenkins, and building containers are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
• Active Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope polygraph required.
• Strong experience with Linux Administration and shell scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or Jenkins).

Responsibilities

• Responsible for planning processes and infrastructure for rapid deployment.
• Ensure implementation of Software Configuration Management standards.
• Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.

Skills

Building and running containers

Linux Administration

Shell scripting

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Messaging software (Kafka, Artemis, etc.)

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Ansible

Java

Python

Prometheus

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Polygraph

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

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 forefront 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 Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. This position is based in Aurora, CO.

About our organization

You’ll be joining our growing Aurora Software and Digital Engineering department, which has 200+ Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, and Network Engineers, ranging from entry‑level to senior chief engineers and architects. DevOps Engineers frequently assume informal (example: Subject Matter Expert) and formal technical leadership roles within their programs, as applicable and per interest. We have plentiful opportunities for career advancement into higher‑level technical roles or leadership positions. Our department is part of a larger organization that includes Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test staff, as well as a Hardware Engineering unit. This larger organization facilitates cross‑program collaboration, professional development and training, and engagement and inclusion activities such as lunch‑n‑learns, campus events, and leadership mixers.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate 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.
• Ensure 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‑to‑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.

Basic Qualifications

• Staff/Level 5: Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master’s; 8 years with a PhD; or 16+ years of total experience in lieu of a degree.
• Active Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope polygraph required at time of application.
• Strong experience building and running containers.
• Strong experience with Linux Administration.
• Strong experience with shell scripting.
• Experience with git.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or Jenkins experience is preferred).
• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience with messaging software (Kafka, Artemis, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience with Java, Python.
• Experience with system monitoring (e.g., Prometheus or similar).
• Familiarity with computer networking.
• Familiarity with access control techniques (RBAC, ABAC, etc.) and software (Keycloak).

Salary & Benefits

Primary Level Salary Range: $177,000.00 – $265,600.00. The above salary range is a general guideline; 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 reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

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.

Equal Opportunity & Citizenship

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.