Principal / Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer
Northrop Grumman4 days ago
Bellevue, NE, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$98k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement and sustain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps infrastructure as code.
- Develop, secure, deploy, and sustain mission applications and supporting infrastructure.
- Manage and troubleshoot containerized workloads and application environments.
- Provide Linux system administration, including virtual machines, storage, and networking support.
- Support system reliability, monitoring, logging, production troubleshooting, and operational sustainment.
- Provide field-support-representative functions as needed to maintain mission effectiveness.
- Collaborate with software engineers, systems engineers, cyber operators, and platform teams across the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in STEM or a related field with 5+ years of experience, or a master's degree in STEM with 3 years of experience for the Principal level.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in STEM or a related field with 8+ years of experience, or a master's degree in STEM with 6 years of experience for the Senior Principal level.
- Active U.S. Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at start.
- Experience with DevOps infrastructure as code tools and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or GitLab CI.
- Experience with OCI-compliant container technologies such as Podman or Docker and with Kubernetes or Docker.
- Experience with Linux, virtual machines, storage, networking, distributed revision control systems such as Git, and production reliability operations.
- Preferred experience includes Python, Bash, or Go; Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation; Harbor, ArgoCD, Grafana, Prometheus, and Helm; security as code; cloud or hybrid deployments; Jira and Confluence; and service-based architectures.
- Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, or KCSP are preferred.
- Experience working in an Agile environment and familiarity with Agile principles and practices are preferred.
Benefits
- Annual base salary ranges are $98,400.00-$147,600.00 for the primary level and $122,800.00-$184,200.00 for the secondary level.
- 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 discretionary bonuses.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- The role requires 10% travel and an active Secret clearance at start; U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring government clearance.
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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).