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Infrastructure Product Owner (DevOps) – level 4

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Full Time On-site

Summary

Job Description

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 an Infrastructure Product Owner (DevOps) – Level 4, you will be supporting our Software and Electronics/Payloads Department which has ~200 Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, Network Engineers, and Engineering Leaders from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects to Product Owners and Scrum Masters. This engineering organization supports numerous programs across Divisions and Business Units of the Space Sector. We have opportunities for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions over one’s career.

This role will be located at our Morrisville, NC location.  On this team, 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.  This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

The ideal candidate must have relevant DevOps experience and prior Agile Product Owner experience to join a small team as their Product Owner.

This position is contingent upon the candidate verification/obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.

Basic Qualifications (must have/required to be considered):

  • Requires an active U.S. Government DoD Top-Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance [TS/SCI] current and within scope, at time of application

  • Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR PhD with 4 years of professional experience.Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.

  • DevOps Engineering experience including CI/CD pipeline deployment

  • Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab Pipelines, and Scripting

  • Experience with Terraform and environment initialization

  • Prior Agile experience in either a Product Owner or Scrum Master role

  • Prior leadership experience

 Preferred Qualifications (not required, but nice to have):      

  • Prior Polygraph (CI or FS)

  • Current and active Security+ and CISSP certifications

  • Prior engineering experience within the Space Industry

  • Excellent presentation, communication, technical writing, and organization skills

  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

  • Experience sharing knowledge via mentoring, coaching, or training others

  • Experience with developing and deploying CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or GitLab

  • Experience with deployment automation scripting using Helm or Ansible or related products

  • Experience troubleshooting virtualization, automation, and deployment applications such as Flux CD, Grafana, Athena, Prometheus, Karpenter or related products

  • Experience with Linux Operating Systems Preferably RHEL 8/9

  • Knowledge of basic networking principles (subnets, VLANs, routing, and firewalls)

 If this job description reads like it was written specifically for you, consider joining our team!

Curious about all the exciting developments with the Northrop Grumman Space Sector? Click the link below:

https://www.northropgrumman.com/space

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About Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is one of the largest aerospace and defense companies in the United States, building advanced systems across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains. The company is known for some of the most complex defense programs in the world, including stealth aircraft, autonomous systems, missile defense technologies, satellites, and space-based intelligence platforms that support U.S. national security operations.

For job seekers, Northrop Grumman offers careers across a wide range of high-impact fields including aerospace engineering, software development, cybersecurity, systems engineering, manufacturing, program management, and intelligence support. The company is especially attractive to veterans, cleared professionals, and engineers who want to work on mission-critical systems that directly support the Department of Defense and intelligence community. Many roles involve long-term programs with significant technical depth and real-world operational impact.

Unlike smaller defense startups focused on narrow capabilities, Northrop Grumman operates across multiple major mission areas, giving employees exposure to highly advanced programs such as stealth platforms, space systems, autonomous vehicles, and next-generation command-and-control systems. The company is also a major leader in classified space and intelligence systems, where cutting-edge engineering and secure infrastructure play a critical role in national defense.

As global competition in space, cyber, and advanced military systems continues to intensify, Northrop Grumman remains one of the most strategically important employers in the defense industry. For professionals seeking stable, highly technical careers with long-term impact on national security, Northrop Grumman continues to stand out as a leading destination in aerospace and defense.

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