Expand your horizons, advance your career, and contribute to a secure future for generations. Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector invites you to bring your pioneering spirit to our collaborative teams. As a DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer – Level 2/3 located in Chandler, Arizona, you’ll be a linchpin in missions of paramount importance, defining the art of the possible from day one. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.
The Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) Flight Software Team is seeking an early- to mid-career DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer to strengthen the software factory supporting flight software, algorithms, and modeling-and-simulation development. You will improve the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of engineering workflows by supporting GitLab CI/CD pipelines, containerized development environments, software-package management, automated testing, and large-scale software execution.
In this role, you will work across Podman and OCI-compatible containers, Visual Studio Code development containers, Linux-based environments, infrastructure automation, and C++ and Python applications. You will investigate and resolve complex issues involving build and test pipelines, containers, dependencies, development environments, and software runsets, helping teams distinguish infrastructure issues from software, model, or flight-dynamics defects.
You will help establish and mature reliable, repeatable processes for container builds, package and dependency management, automated testing, software releases, and large-scale execution environments. Your work will improve environment consistency, reduce development interruptions and repetitive manual effort, and enable engineering teams to focus on delivering mission-critical capabilities.
This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.
In this job, you will:- Maintain and improve GitLab repositories, branching workflows, integrations, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software-factory operations.
- Build, configure, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot containerized development and execution environments using Podman, OCI-compatible container images, and Visual Studio Code development containers.
- Create and maintain container definitions, build scripts, base images, reusable development environments, and repeatable container-image build, release, update, distribution, and retirement processes.
- Manage software packages, dependencies, repositories, version compatibility, and configuration baselines across containerized and Linux-based development, test, and execution environments.
- Develop automation for building, testing, code review, deployment, vulnerability scanning, metrics collection, and software-factory operations to reduce manual effort and improve repeatability.
- Diagnose and resolve complex build, test, deployment, environment, infrastructure, container, package, and large-scale software-runset issues; perform root-cause analysis across GitLab pipelines, development environments, and C++ and Python applications.
- Monitor software-factory reliability, performance, utilization, and health metrics; identify recurring failure patterns and implement sustainable improvements.
- Support large-scale software testing and execution, including high-performance computing-related scripts, workflows, resource utilization, job execution, and performance optimization when applicable.
- Collaborate with flight software, algorithms, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, test, performance, and infrastructure teams to resolve cross-functional issues and improve engineering workflows.
- Create and maintain troubleshooting guides, release notes, tool configurations, operational documentation, and reusable development practices.
- Other duties as assigned.
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This position is contingent upon you obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.
This position can be filled at a Level 2 or Level 3.
Basic Qualifications:DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer – Level 2- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related STEM discipline with 2 years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree in a related STEM discipline with 1 year of professional experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Experience developing or supporting software using C++ or Python.
- Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds or tests, or software-development environment troubleshooting.
- Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting container images or containerized environments using Podman, Docker, or another OCI-compatible platform.
- Experience managing software packages or dependencies in Linux-based development or execution environments, including working knowledge of Linux command-line tools.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve issues spanning software, automation, containers, package dependencies, and infrastructure components.
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate across technical disciplines.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance
Basic Qualifications:Principal DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer – Level 3
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related STEM discipline with 5 years of relevant experience; a master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience; or a Ph.D. in a related discipline with 1 year of professional experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Demonstrated experience developing, integrating, or supporting C++ or Python software applications.
- Demonstrated experience using Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.
- Demonstrated experience designing, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, automated build-and-test workflows, and development environments.
- Demonstrated experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting OCI-compatible container images or containerized environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing Linux software packages, application dependencies, or version compatibility, including working knowledge of Linux command-line tools.
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve issues spanning software applications, automation, containers, package dependencies, development tooling, and infrastructure.
- Ability to lead technical investigations, coordinate across teams, drive issues through resolution, and help improve repeatable engineering practices.
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance
- Experience administering or optimizing GitLab repositories, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runners, and related integrations.
- Experience with Podman, Containerfiles or Dockerfiles, image registries, image tagging, multi-stage builds, and rootless containers.
- Experience integrating automated container builds, tests, vulnerability scans, and publication into GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with Linux package-management tools and repositories, including RPM, DNF/YUM, APT, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience managing C++ and Python build dependencies using CMake, Conan, vcpkg, pip, or equivalent package-management solutions.
- Experience creating reproducible, version-controlled development environments using Visual Studio Code development containers.
- Familiarity with software supply-chain practices, including dependency pinning, provenance, software bills of materials, artifact repositories, and vulnerability remediation.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, secure software-development processes, and software-factory operations.
- Experience with high-performance computing environments, schedulers, distributed workloads, resource-utilization analysis, or job-performance optimization.
- Experience with large-scale test execution, simulation runsets, log analysis, and failure triage.
- Experience profiling and optimizing C++ or Python applications for runtime, memory use, reliability, or scalability.
- Familiarity with flight software, flight algorithms, modeling and simulation, or physics-based software systems.
- Experience with Bash, Python, or similar scripting and automation languages.
- Experience building dashboards or automating collection of software-quality, pipeline, reliability, and utilization metrics.
- Familiarity with static analysis, code-quality checks, automated review workflows, test coverage, and artifact management.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic automation.
- Strong written communication, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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Primary Level Salary Range: $79,300.00 - $118,900.00Secondary Level Salary Range: $98,400.00 - $147,600.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related STEM discipline with 2 years of relevant experience; alternatively, a related master’s degree with 1 year of professional experience, or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree for Level 2.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related STEM discipline with 5 years of relevant experience; alternatively, a related master’s degree with 3 years, a Ph.D. with 1 year, or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree for Level 3.
- Experience developing or supporting software using C++ or Python.
- Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds or tests, or software-development environment troubleshooting.
- Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting container images or containerized environments using Podman, Docker, or another OCI-compatible platform.
- Experience managing software packages or dependencies in Linux-based development or execution environments, including Linux command-line tools.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve issues spanning software, automation, containers, package dependencies, and infrastructure components.
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate across technical disciplines.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
- Ability to lead technical investigations, coordinate across teams, drive issues through resolution, and improve repeatable engineering practices for Level 3.
- Experience administering or optimizing GitLab repositories, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runners, and integrations.
- Experience with Podman, Containerfiles or Dockerfiles, image registries, image tagging, multi-stage builds, and rootless containers.
- Experience integrating automated container builds, tests, vulnerability scans, and publication into GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with Linux package-management tools and repositories, including RPM, DNF/YUM, APT, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience managing C++ and Python build dependencies using CMake, Conan, vcpkg, pip, or equivalent solutions.
- Experience creating reproducible, version-controlled development environments using Visual Studio Code development containers.
- Familiarity with software supply-chain practices, dependency pinning, provenance, software bills of materials, artifact repositories, and vulnerability remediation.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, secure software-development processes, and software-factory operations.
- Experience with high-performance computing environments, schedulers, distributed workloads, resource-utilization analysis, or job-performance optimization.
- Experience with large-scale test execution, simulation runsets, log analysis, and failure triage.
- Experience profiling and optimizing C++ or Python applications for runtime, memory use, reliability, or scalability.
- Familiarity with flight software, flight algorithms, modeling and simulation, or physics-based software systems.
- Experience with Bash, Python, or similar scripting and automation languages.
- Experience building dashboards or automating collection of software-quality, pipeline, reliability, and utilization metrics.
- Familiarity with static analysis, code-quality checks, automated review workflows, test coverage, and artifact management.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic automation.
- Strong written communication, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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