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Staff DevOps Engineer - Active Top Secret wSCI

Northrop Grumman
COAU01, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Jul 2026
💰 $265,600/yr($177,000/yr$265,600/yr)

About the role

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

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 augment our team. This position can be based in Space Park CA.

Primary Responsibilities:

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

  • Integrates 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.

  • Ensures 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-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:

  • Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.

  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government Full Scope Polygraph.

  • 12 Years with Bachelors in Science; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD.

  • Security+, not needed to start, but must be able to obtain within 6 months

  • Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.

  • Experience in an Agile software development framework

  • Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Current Security+

  • Terraform

  • Kubernetes administration

  • AWS administration

  • Flux

  • Helm

  • DynamoDB

  • NATS configuration

  • Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)

  • Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Primary Level Salary Range: $177,000.00 - $265,600.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, 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 are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be

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