Principal/sr. Principal Devops Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Aurora, CO +2 · Software

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal or Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer to plan and evolve processes and infrastructure for rapid capability maturation and deployment. The role involves integrating development pipelines with automation, test-driven development, and CI/CD frameworks. Responsibilities include defining and implementing build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards, ensuring SCM, code quality, and automated testing for CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will work within an Agile team to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management, build delivery environments, and create scripts for infrastructure automation. Collaboration with development teams for CI/CD systems, vendor support, system monitoring, and performance evaluation are also key aspects. A Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
  2. Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.
  3. Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
  4. Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
  5. Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.

Skills

Required

  • Linux administration
  • Agile software development framework
  • Top Secret/SCI clearance
  • CI Polygraph

Nice to have

  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes administration
  • AWS administration
  • Flux
  • Helm
  • DynamoDB
  • NATS configuration
  • Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
  • Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

What the JD emphasized

  • active Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time application AND CI Polygraph to be considered
  • Security+, not needed to start, but must be able to obtain within 6 months