Northrop Grumman Australia · 3 hours ago
Principal/Senior Principal Engineer DevOps*
United States-Utah-Roy
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$98K/yr - $148K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading company in revolutionary systems that impact people's lives worldwide. They are seeking a Principal or Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to develop automation scripts, design CI/CD pipelines, and manage cloud resources, contributing to innovative projects in air and space.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Develop scripts, workflows, and playbooks for storage provisioning, automation, and backup integration
Design, build, maintain and own SDP‑compliant CI/CD pipelines, ensuring they incorporate security checks, automated patching, and governance requirements
Develop containers with Podman and orchestrate deployments on Kubernetes (or similar platforms)
Create and maintain IaC using Ansible (or comparable tools) to provision and configure cloud resources, containers, and networking components
Write automation scripts and playbooks in Python, Go, Bash, or other languages for building images, running SAST scans, and automating repetitive tasks
Develop and evolve build, deployment, and release processes, including versioning, artifact storage, and promotion across environments
Qualification
Required
Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval as determined by the company to meet its business need
Hold or have the ability to obtain Security + CE (or other DoD 8570/8140 certification)
Level 3 (T3): 5 Years with Bachelors in Science from an accredited university; 3 Years with Masters; 1 Year with PhD or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
Level 4 (T4): 8 Years with Bachelors in Science from an accredited university; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
Experience with developing CI/CD workflows and utilizing tools such as Nexus, Maven, Jira, GitLab, and Release Management
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible.)
Programming and scripting experience in a UNIX environment (GoLang, C++, Perl, Python, Bash, Ruby, Shell, Scripts)
Preferred
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other cloud orchestration tools and technologies
Experience with Podman, Buildah, Skopeo and/or other container tools and technologies
Experience with CI/CD best practices, automated builds and tests, quality gates, software quality, and CI tools, i.e., Jenkins
Experience with configuration management tools, i.e., Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, others Familiarity with branching strategies, gated commits, source-controlled management, etc
Familiarity with the principle of DevSecOps
Familiarity with Atlassian Tool Suite Jira, Confluence
Familiarity with using a Nexus Repository
Familiarity with security coding standard best practices, static and dynamic scanning tools, i.e., SonarQube, Fortify, Coverity, PCLint, Anchore, Nexus Lifecycle, etc
Familiarity with Agile Development
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase