
Staff Cloud Engineer
Aurora, COJob$169–266K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector seeks an experienced Staff Cloud and DevOps Engineer to support programs through cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment capabilities. The role can be based in Aurora, Colorado; Morrisville, North Carolina; or Sacramento, California. The engineer will work with Agile development teams to build and maintain CI/CD systems, infrastructure, and operational support, and will contribute to security, monitoring, and performance efforts.
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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret
TRAVEL: No
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.
Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems Sector is looking for an experienced Staff Cloud and DevOps Engineer to augment our team. This position can be based in Aurora, CO, Morrisville, NC or Sacramento, CA.
Primary Responsibilities:
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Responsible for planning and evolving processes and infrastructure to execute programs supporting rapid capability maturation and deployment.
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Integrates development pipelines leveraging automation with test-driven development tools and continuous integration/test frameworks.
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Define and implement the build, deployment, provisioning, and monitoring standards for the program.
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Ensures implementation of Software Configuration Management (SCM), code quality, and code coverage with automated testing for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
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Work as part of an Agile development team to deliver end-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management framework.
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Build and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile delivery methodology.
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Create scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
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Work closely with development teams to create an automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) system.
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Work together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
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Monitor and support all installed systems and infrastructure.
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Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
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Contribute to the design of information and operational support systems.
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Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.
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Oversee the company’s security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
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Evaluate application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.
Basic Qualifications:
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United States Citizenship is required to be considered.
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Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI approval/access.
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Must have an active U.S. Government CI Polygraph at time of application, current and within scope.
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Bachelor’s degree with 12 + years of relevant experience; 10 years with a Master's; 8 years with a PhD; or 9 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
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Must have all of the following : AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
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Current Security+, certification
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Administration experience with Linux or related operating systems.
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Experience in an Agile software development framework
Experience with at least 3 of the preferred qualificat ions
Preferred Qualifications:
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Terraform
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Kubernetes administration
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AWS administration
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Flux
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Helm
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DynamoDB
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NATS configuration
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Big Bang (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki)
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Jenkins/GitLab/Bamboo
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Primary Level Salary Range: $169,000.00 - $265,600.00
The 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.
Job Category: Engineering
How this job compares
Set against the 4,297 open Cloud Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$169–266K/yr
- Colorado median$119–179K/yr155 salary ranges
- US median$113–210K/yr3,530 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $217K, is 50% above the Colorado median midpoint ($145K) — in the top quarter of Cloud Engineer salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 178 open Cloud Engineer jobs in Colorado and 4,297 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Cloud Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,706 postings).
- Education
- 1,900 of the 4,297 open Cloud Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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