DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4

Company: Northrop Grumman
Location: Morrisville
Posted on: January 1, 2026

Job Description:

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE TYPE: PolygraphTRAVEL: 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. This DevOps Engineer – Level 3 or 4 role will sit in our Morrisville, NC site. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off. In this job, you will: - 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. This position is contingent upon clearance verification and transfer to the NG sponsored program as well as continued ability to maintain required clearance level. Basic Qualifications (must have/required to be considered): This requisition may be filled at either a level 3 (Principal) or a level 4 (Sr Principal), depending on the candidate's experience as laid out in the basic qualifications detailed below as well as the interview assessment. - Requires an active Top-Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] AND an adjudicated Counterintelligence polygraph (CI Poly) at time of application - Level 3: (Principal level) - Bachelor's degree with 5 years of software development experience - An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor's - Master's degree with 3 years of software development experience - PhD with 1 year of software development experience - Level 4: (Senior Principal level) - Bachelor's degree with 8 years of software development experience - An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed Bachelor's - Master's degree with 6 years of software development experience - PhD with 4 years of software development experience - Either must hold a current CompTIA Security (Sec) certification, or if do not possess 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 About Space Sector: Offering satellite, payload, directed energy, and electronics for security and civil markets. We're built on innovative, cost-effective aerospace/defense solutions, ensuring mission success. Join our revolution, where the impossible becomes possible. Curious about all the exciting developments with the Northrop Grumman Space Sector? Click the link below: https://www.northropgrumman.com/space Working at Northrop Grumman is more than just a paycheck. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package designed to help you thrive at work and in life. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please visit our Total Rewards site. Northrop Grumman Total Rewards Primary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 - $163,200.00Secondary Level Salary Range: $135,800.00 - $203,600.00The 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.

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