Staff DevOps Engineer with Top Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman; United States; On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector. The role supports rapid capability maturation and deployment in an Agile environment, with a Top Secret/SCI clearance and US citizenship required.

Positions can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA. The role requires experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux administration, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required for consideration.
• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master’s; 8 years with a PhD; or equivalent experience.
• Must have AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Experience with Linux administration.
• Experience in an Agile software development framework.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrate development pipelines with automated tests and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards.
• Ensure SCM, code quality, and test coverage in CI/CD pipelines.
• Work in an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.
• Create delivery environments for CD/CI tools using Agile methods.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning via scripts/templates.
• Collaborate with dev teams to automate CI/CD system.
• Coordinate with vendors/IT for issue resolution; monitor systems.
• Develop scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce manual tasks.
• Contribute to design of information and operational support systems.
• Install, configure, test and maintain OS, apps, and management tools.
• Oversee security, backups, redundancy strategies.
• Evaluate app performance, identify bottlenecks, implement solutions with devs.

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Space Systems Sector. The role supports rapid capability maturation and deployment in an Agile environment, with a Top Secret/SCI clearance and US citizenship required.

Positions can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA. The role requires experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux administration, and CI/CD practices.