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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.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.\nThe 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.\nIn 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.\nYou 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.\nThis position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.\nIn this job, you will:\nMaintain and improve GitLab repositories, branching workflows, integrations, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software-factory operations.\nBuild, configure, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot containerized development and execution environments using Podman, OCI-compatible container images, and Visual Studio Code development containers.\nCreate and maintain container definitions, build scripts, base images, reusable development environments, and repeatable container-image build, release, update, distribution, and retirement processes.\nManage software packages, dependencies, repositories, version compatibility, and configuration baselines across containerized and Linux-based development, test, and execution environments.\nDevelop automation for building, testing, code review, deployment, vulnerability scanning, metrics collection, and software-factory operations to reduce manual effort and improve repeatability.\nDiagnose 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.\nMonitor software-factory reliability, performance, utilization, and health metrics; identify recurring failure patterns and implement sustainable improvements.\nSupport large-scale software testing and execution, including high-performance computing-related scripts, workflows, resource utilization, job execution, and performance optimization when applicable.\nCollaborate with flight software, algorithms, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, test, performance, and infrastructure teams to resolve cross-functional issues and improve engineering workflows.\nCreate and maintain troubleshooting guides, release notes, tool configurations, operational documentation, and reusable development practices.\nOther duties as assigned.\nIf this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!\nThis position is contingent upon you obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.\nThis position can be filled at a Level 2 or Level 3.\nBasic Qualifications:\nDevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer - Level 2\nBachelor’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.\nExperience developing or supporting software using C++ or Python.\nExperience with Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines, automated builds or tests, or software-development environment troubleshooting.\nExperience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting container images or containerized environments using Podman, Docker, or another OCI-compatible platform.\nExperience managing software packages or dependencies in Linux-based development or execution environments, including working knowledge of Linux command-line tools.\nAbility to diagnose and resolve issues spanning software, automation, containers, package dependencies, and infrastructure components.\nAbility to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate across technical disciplines.\nMust have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance\nBasic Qualifications:\nPrincipal DevSecOps/Software Infrastructure Engineer - Level 3\nBachelor’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.\nDemonstrated experience developing, integrating, or supporting C++ or Python software applications.\nDemonstrated experience using Git-based source control and collaborative software-development workflows.\nDemonstrated experience designing, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, automated build-and-test workflows, and development environments.\nDemonstrated experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting OCI-compatible container images or containerized environments.\nDemonstrated experience managing Linux software packages, application dependencies, or version compatibility, including working knowledge of Linux command-line tools.\nDemonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve issues spanning software applications, automation, containers, package dependencies, development tooling, and infrastructure.\nAbility to lead technical investigations, coordinate across teams, drive issues through resolution, and help improve repeatable engineering practices.\nMust have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience administering or optimizing GitLab repositories, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runners, and related integrations.\nExperience with Podman, Containerfiles or Dockerfiles, image registries, image tagging, multi-stage builds, and rootless containers.\nExperience integrating automated container builds, tests, vulnerability scans, and publication into GitLab CI/CD pipelines.\nFamiliarity with Linux package-management tools and repositories, including RPM, DNF/YUM, APT, or equivalent technologies.\nExperience managing C++ and Python build dependencies using CMake, Conan, vcpkg, pip, or equivalent package-management solutions.\nExperience creating reproducible, version-controlled development environments using Visual Studio Code development containers.\nFamiliarity with software supply-chain practices, including dependency pinning, provenance, software bills of materials, artifact repositories, and vulnerability remediation.\nFamiliarity with DevSecOps practices, secure software-development processes, and software-factory operations.\nExperience with high-performance computing environments, schedulers, distributed workloads, resource-utilization analysis, or job-performance optimization.\nExperience with large-scale test execution, simulation runsets, log analysis, and failure triage.\nExperience profiling and optimizing C++ or Python applications for runtime, memory use, reliability, or scalability.\nFamiliarity with flight software, flight algorithms, modeling and simulation, or physics-based software systems.\nExperience with Bash, Python, or similar scripting and automation languages.\nExperience building dashboards or automating collection of software-quality, pipeline, reliability, and utilization metrics.\nFamiliarity with static analysis, code-quality checks, automated review workflows, test coverage, and artifact management.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted software development, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, or agentic automation.\nStrong written communication, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nAbout Northrop Grumman Space Sector\nCurious about all the exciting developments with Northrop Grumman Space Sector? Visit https://www.northropgrumman.com/space.\nWorking at Northrop Grumman is more than just a paycheck. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package designed to help you thrive at work and in life. For more information, please visit our Total Rewards site.\n#AZSpace \n#SpaceEngJobs\nPrimary 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. 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