Top Secret Cleared DevOps Engineer

Northrop Grumman; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 169,000 - 266,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector seeks a Staff DevOps Engineer to advance automation across CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring. The role supports rapid capability maturation and deployment, with a focus on secure, scalable systems.

The position may be based in Morrisville, NC, or other listed locations; requires active U.S. government clearance and a strong background in Agile development and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI access.
• CI Polygraph current and in scope.
• Bachelor’s degree with many years of relevant experience or higher degree.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning tech.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evolve processes and infrastructure to enable rapid capability maturation and deployment.
• Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and CI/CD frameworks.
• Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
• Ensures SCM, code quality, and automated testing for CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with Agile teams to deliver end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management.

Skills

Active Top Secret clearance

CI Polygraph

Agile software development

Linux administration

Infrastructure-as-code

Education

Bachelor’s degree with extensive experience; advanced degree or years of experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Azure Bicep/ARM

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab

Pulumi

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector seeks a Staff DevOps Engineer to advance automation across CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring. The role supports rapid capability maturation and deployment, with a focus on secure, scalable systems.

The position may be based in Morrisville, NC, or other listed locations; requires active U.S. government clearance and a strong background in Agile development and infrastructure-as-code practices.