Staff DevOps Engineer - Top Secret Cloud & CI/CD Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector. This role can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC, or Sacramento, CA, and involves maturing deployment pipelines and automated infrastructure across programs.

You will work within an Agile team to deliver CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, and system monitoring, collaborating with vendors and development teams to optimize performance and security.

Qualifications

• Must have active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance and SCI access.
• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or equivalent years of experience.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to enable rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with test-driven development tools and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define and implement build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for programs.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

Agile development

CI/CD

Automation scripting

Linux administration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a STEM field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM

Pulumi

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector. This role can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC, or Sacramento, CA, and involves maturing deployment pipelines and automated infrastructure across programs.

You will work within an Agile team to deliver CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, and system monitoring, collaborating with vendors and development teams to optimize performance and security.