
Senior Principal Software Engineer - DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure (Oklahoma City)
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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.DevOps Engineer responsible for designing and managing the Cloud infrastructure. Duties include deploying product updates, setting up software factory, virtual machines, containers, and orchestration. The role will have a large impact on team productivity and as such requires an understanding of the software development lifecycle and various automation tools for developing digital pipelines (CI/CD pipelines).
You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Real-time & Embedded Software, Test Automation, DevOps and Systems Test, in an Agile software development environment. You will analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls.
Essential Functions:
Work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels
Participate in the full software development life cycle including design, implementation, and delivery of software products to our customers
Operate in a cloud technology development environment working with microservices, object-oriented programming, design patterns and pub-sub messaging
Work in Agile Scrum teams to develop software products for multiple software baselines
Collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers and integration/test engineers to develop and maintain complex software systems
Benefits:
We offer flexible work arrangements, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) provide benefits for the member, our leaders and the company. Our ERGs offer opportunities to be a friend, be active, be a volunteer, be a leader, to be recognized and to be yourself. Every ERG is inclusive of all employees!
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of experience in software engineering OR a Master’s degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 6 years of experience in software engineering OR a PhD degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 4 years of experience.
Experience with Agile Framework within the last 3 years.
Experience implementing software and scripts in one or more Object Oriented Programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, and Python within the last 3 years.
Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as: Atlassian tool suite, GitHub, GitLab, AND/OR Jenkins within the last 3 years.
Experience with one of the following continuous deployment systems: Octopus, ArgoCD, CodeStream, EletricFlow, AWS AND/OR CodePipeline within the last 3 years.
Experience with one of the following metric tools: Tableau, JasperReport, Crystal Report, Talend, Alteryx, OR Power BI within the last 3 years.
Active DoD Secret Security Clearance (in-scope), with the ability to obtain (and maintain) special program access (PAR) prior to commencement of employment.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Active Directory, ePO Trellix, & ACAS scanning tools
Any Cloud Service Provider Certification (e.g. AZ-900, AZ-104, AWS Cloud Practitioner, etc)
Security+ Certification
Terraform Associate Certification
Differentiating characteristics include demonstrated leadership, teamwork capabilities, strong time management, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
Recent Experience AND/OR Certification with cloud and container management technologies such as: VMWare, AWS, Azure, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Nomad.
Recent Experience Defining, Architecting, Designing, Implementing Automated collection and reporting metrics.
Recent Demonstrated Experience Defining Roadmap, Architecting, Designing, AND implementing microservices for Cloud Solutions.
Recent Experience Defining Roadmap, Architecting, Designing, Implementing Cyber Remediation AND Cyber Compliance (Risk Management Framework - RMF).
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Job Details
- Category
- Software
- Employment Type
- Full time
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK 73160, United States
- Posted
- Nov 23, 2025, 07:00 PM
- Listed
- Jan 17, 2026, 11:18 AM
- Last updated
- Jan 17, 2026, 02:24 PM
- Compensation
- $116,300 - $174,500 per year
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