3 (Chandler) (AHT)

Northrop Grumman•Chandler, AZ

2d•$79,300 - $147,600•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is hiring an early- to mid-career DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer for the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) Flight Software Team in Chandler, Arizona. The role strengthens the software factory supporting flight software, algorithms, and modeling-and-simulation development by improving the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of engineering workflows. The position is 100% onsite and does not accommodate telecommuting. The work schedule is 9/80, with every other Friday off, and travel is 10% of the time. The engineer will support GitLab CI/CD pipelines, containerized development environments, software-package management, automated testing, and large-scale software execution. The work involves Podman and OCI-compatible containers, Visual Studio Code development containers, Linux environments, infrastructure automation, and C++ and Python applications. The role includes investigating and resolving complex issues across builds, tests, containers, dependencies, development environments, and software runsets, including identifying whether an issue arises from infrastructure, software, models, or flight dynamics. The engineer will establish and mature repeatable processes for container builds, package and dependency management, automated testing, software releases, and large-scale execution environments. The position may be filled at Level 2 or Level 3. It requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance, and the position is contingent upon receiving final clearances and program access within a reasonable period as determined by the company. Relocation assistance may be available.

Requirements

Level 2: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related STEM discipline and 2 years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree in a related STEM discipline and 1 year of professional experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Level 3: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related STEM discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; a master’s degree and 3 years of relevant experience; or a Ph.D. in a related discipline and 1 year of professional experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Experience developing, integrating, supporting, or demonstrating C++ or Python software applications.
Experience with Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds or tests, or troubleshooting software-development environments; Level 3 requires demonstrated experience designing, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, automated build-and-test workflows, and development environments.
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, development tooling, and infrastructure.
Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate across technical disciplines.
Level 3: Ability to lead technical investigations, coordinate across teams, drive issues through resolution, and improve repeatable engineering practices.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.
U.S. citizenship is required for positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Health insurance coverage
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Savings plan
Company-paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position
Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and allow employees to share in company results
Long-term incentives may be available to employees in Vice President or Director positions
Relocation assistance may be available