DevOps Engineer - Level 3 (AHT)
Northrop Grumman11 days ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$104k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for frequent and reliable software delivery.
- Automate infrastructure deployment, scaling, and management using configuration management and scripting tools.
- Implement and manage Docker, Podman, and related container runtime technologies, including rootless and rootful configurations.
- Collaborate with development and test teams to improve build, integration, and deployment processes.
- Integrate automated testing, static analysis, code quality, coverage, and security tools into CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor pipeline and system performance and improve reliability and availability.
- Maintain security, compliance, and configuration baselines across environments.
- Use identity and credential management solutions, credential managers, and service accounts to support secure automation and access control.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 3 years of related experience, or a PhD and 1 year of related experience.
- Current, active, in-scope U.S. Government-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Experience with containerization, container runtimes, and deploying applications in containerized environments.
- Experience with automated testing and software development pipelines or factories, including unit, integration, or acceptance testing in CI/CD.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as the Atlassian tool suite, Jira, GitHub, GitLab, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Coverity, or Jenkins.
- Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux operating systems.
- Preferred qualifications include strong Linux administration, shell scripting, production-like operations, hypervisor and virtualization experience, credential and identity management experience, Keycloak or similar technologies, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Model-Based Systems Engineering, and Gherkin/Cucumber-based Behavior-Driven Development.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- The role requires daily onsite work in Colorado Springs and at Schriever Space Force Base, with very limited remote or hybrid work.
- Employees may receive 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.
- The position requires up to 10% travel and an active Secret clearance before starting.
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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).