DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer – Level 2/3 (Chandler) (AHT)
Northrop Grumman1 day ago
Chandler, AZ, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$79k - $148k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain GitLab repositories, branching workflows, integrations, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software-factory operations.
- Build, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot Podman and OCI-compatible containerized development and execution environments, including Visual Studio Code development containers.
- Create container definitions, build scripts, base images, reusable development environments, and repeatable image build, release, distribution, and retirement processes.
- Manage software packages, dependencies, repositories, version compatibility, and configuration baselines across Linux-based environments.
- Develop automation for builds, testing, code review, deployment, vulnerability scanning, metrics collection, and software-factory operations.
- Diagnose infrastructure, container, package, build, test, deployment, and large-scale software-runset issues across C++ and Python applications.
- Monitor software-factory reliability, performance, utilization, and health metrics and implement sustainable improvements.
- Support large-scale software testing and execution, including high-performance computing scripts, workflows, resource utilization, job execution, and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with flight software, algorithms, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, test, performance, and infrastructure teams.
- Maintain troubleshooting guides, release notes, tool configurations, operational documentation, and reusable development practices.
Requirements
- Level 2 requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or related STEM discipline plus 2 years of relevant experience, or a related master’s degree plus 1 year of professional experience; up to 4 additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
- Level 3 requires a bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of relevant experience, a master’s degree plus 3 years, or a Ph.D. plus 1 year; up to 4 additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
- Experience developing, integrating, or supporting C++ or Python applications.
- Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds or tests, software-development environment troubleshooting, and containerized environments using Podman, Docker, or another OCI-compatible platform.
- Experience managing software packages or dependencies in Linux-based environments and working with Linux command-line tools.
- Ability to diagnose issues spanning software, automation, containers, dependencies, and infrastructure components.
- Level 3 candidates should be able to lead technical investigations, coordinate across teams, drive issues to resolution, and improve repeatable engineering practices.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include GitLab administration, container builds and registries, Linux package-management tools, CMake, Conan, vcpkg, pip, software supply-chain practices, HPC environments, large-scale testing, profiling, metrics, static analysis, and technical documentation.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- The position is 100% onsite in Chandler, Arizona and cannot accommodate telecommute work.
- The role follows a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off and requires travel 10% of the time.
- Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base salary.
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).