DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer - Position qualifies for sign-on bonus starting at $5k — Morrisville, NC

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Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman

DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer - Position qualifies for sign-on bonus starting at $5k

Morrisville

Full-time

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$87.6k–$137.6k / yr

Location

Morrisville

Job type

Full-time

Experience level

Mid-Senior ICs

Posted

Today

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December 22, 2026

• 45 days left

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Company

We are a close-knit community of big thinkers collaborating to keep the world safe. Our passion, creativity and expertise bring next-level technology solutions to life in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, strike, space, and logistics and modernization for our customers around the globe.

On the Northrop Grumman team, you’ll join our pursuit of excellence immersed in a dynamic culture of innovation and respect. Your unique perspective will help achieve our shared vision for the future of global security. Every step of the way, you'll be supported by world-class training, employee resource groups and a comprehensive benefits package that enables greater health and happiness for you and your family.

Worldwide and across disciplines, we’re challenging what’s possible for technology to protect people and places from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace. And we see the impact of our performance every day. We are Northrop Grumman, and we work on what matters—now, you too can make a difference.

Explore opportunities in engineering, IT, manufacturing, business management, cybersecurity and more at ••••••••

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 •••••••• U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Our careers site can be found at •••••••• If you are contacted about a job at Northrop Grumman, please verify the email came from the domain @•••••••• before engaging with that contact. If you are contacted by a Northrop Grumman recruiter on LinkedIn, please that their profile includes the verified check mark to ensure the contact is legitimate.

Industry

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Company size

5001+

Headquarters

Falls Church, VA

Funding

Public

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Job Description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: No

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.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer or Principal DevOps Engineer. This position can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA.

Primary Responsibilities

• 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 can be staffed at a Level 2 or Principal level, based on the basic qualifications below.

This position offers a sign-on bonus starting at $5,000.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.

• Must have an active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application, current and within scope.

• United States Citizenship

• Level 2: Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience; 0 years with a Master's. 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.

• Level 3 / Principal: Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience; 3 years with a Master's. 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and provisioning technology.

• CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT/IAM II certification

• Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.

• Experience in an Agile software development framework

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform

• Ansible

• CloudFormation

• Azure Bicep/ARM templates

• Pulumi

• OpenTufo

• Kubernetes administration

• AWS administration

• Flux

• Helm

• DynamoDB

• NATS configuration

• Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)

• Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo

Primary Level Salary Range: $87,600.00 - $137,600.00

Secondary Level Salary Range: $108,800.00 - $171,000.00

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 •••••••• U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

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