Northrop Grumman · 4 hours ago
Principal/Senior Principal Engineer DevOps*
Bellevue, NE
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$98K/yr - $148K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements, seeking a Principal or Senior Principal DevOps Engineer to join their team. The role involves developing automation scripts, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring security compliance in a cloud environment.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
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
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
Leadership Team
Tom Wilson
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Business Development
Jeffrey Worsham
Chief Product Owner - Advanced Technology Development
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