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DevOps Engineer - Level 3
Posted 2 months ago• Software
Compensation
$110,300–$165,500/year
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Job Description
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance availableCLEARANCE TYPE: SecretTRAVEL: 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.Northrop Grumman seeks a talented, self-motivated, energetic professional to join the engineering team in Boulder, Colorado as a Principal (Level 3) DevOps Engineer.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with development teams to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Coordinate activities across multidisciplinary engineering teams, raise issues at the program level, and drive complex projects to success
- Analyze system capabilities for output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls.
- Provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex difficult problems.
- Effectively communicate and present technical subjects to project and program management, other technical managers, and customers
- Manage technical dependencies across teams
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to identify opportunities for automation and process improvement
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 3 years of related experience, or 1 year of related experience with a PhD. An additional 4 years of related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Applicants must have an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at the time of application and to start
- Experience with modern C++ software language (C++17, C++20), development tools, and integrated development environments (IDEs) and compilers
- Experience with Object Oriented Programming
- Experience developing in Linux environments
- Experience developing in cross-platform (Linux/Windows) environments
- Experience with modular software development architectures/practices with source control tools (Git, CMake, Conan etc.)
- Experience working with Atlassian suite products (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc.)
- Familiarity with revision control, documentation, planning, and review systems like Git
- Software development and troubleshooting in a team environment
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% to support business needs
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ (SecPlus)
- Current and active DoD-issued TS/SCI clearance at the time of application
- Technical leadership experience
- Experience with Python
- Familiarity with Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) and Electro-Optical Infrared (EOIR) sensors
- Experience with Distributed Systems and Micro-service Architecture & Observability Tools (Graphana, OpenTelemetry, RKE2/K3S/Tanzu/Docker Swarm)
- Experience with DevOps and DevSecOps (Jenkins or Git Lab)
- Experience with container orchestration and deployment (Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Openshift, Rancher)
- Experience with Containerization development (Podman or Docker)
- Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (Ansible)
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Job Details
- Category
- Software
- Employment Type
- Full time
- Location
- Boulder, CO 80302, United States
- Posted
- Nov 10, 2025, 07:00 PM
- Listed
- Jan 17, 2026, 12:01 PM
- Last updated
- Jan 17, 2026, 02:25 PM
- Compensation
- $110,300 - $165,500 per year
About Northrop Grumman
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