DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Polygraph

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.

Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4 located in Morrisville, NC, you’ll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

This role focuses on designing, automating, and managing end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure—including build, deployment, provisioning, monitoring, and security—by leveraging Agile practices, scripting, and configuration‑management tools. It also involves collaborating with development teams, vendors, and IT staff to resolve issues, optimize performance, and ensure reliable, scalable operations across all systems.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

In this job, you will:

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

• Integrate 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.

• Ensure 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.

• Other duties as assigned.

If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

Basic Qualifications for Level 3:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 1 year of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.

• Requires an active Top-Secret(TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] with an active Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph at time of application

• Must hold a current CompTIA Security+ (Sec+) certification, or must be able to obtain a CompTIA Security+ (Sec+) certification within 6 months of start date

• Experience with Linux administration or related operating systems

• Experience in an Agile software development framework

• Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualifications

Basic Qualifications for Level 4:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.

• Requires an active Top-Secret(TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] with an active Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph at time of application

• Must hold a current CompTIA Security+ (Sec+) certification, or must be able to obtain a CompTIA Security+ (Sec+) certification within 6 months of start date

• Experience with Linux administration or related operating systems

• Experience in an Agile software development framework

• Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualifications

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Terraform

• Kubernetes administration

• AWS administration

• Flux

• Helm

• DynamoDB

• NATS configuration

• Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)

• Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Curious about all the exciting developments with the Northrop Grumman Space Sector? Click the link below:

https://www.northropgrumman.com/space

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Primary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 - $163,200.00Secondary Level Salary Range: $135,800.00 - $203,600.00

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 eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.