Infrastructure Product Owner (DevOps) – Level 4
Northrop Grumman · Morrisville, NC
$135,800–$213,400from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Morrisville, NC
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Product Owner embedded within a roughly 200-person software and infrastructure engineering department supporting space-sector programs. The role involves owning the backlog and direction for a small DevOps team responsible for CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and environment automation. It suits an experienced engineer who has moved into Agile product ownership and holds an active Top Secret clearance.
Senior level · 8+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $140,636 (middle half $126,359–$175,118). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (11)
The role is titled 'Infrastructure Product Owner (DevOps) – Level 4', which Northrop Grumman maps to a senior individual-contributor/technical-lead band; it is classified here as Senior accordingly.
The posting lists two possible locations — Aurora, CO and Morrisville, NC (Raleigh CBSA). The Aurora, CO location is used as the primary CBSA; the Morrisville, NC (Raleigh-Cary, NC CBSA 39580) location is an equally valid alternative.
The role is 100% onsite; telecommute is explicitly not accommodated.
A Top Secret clearance is a hard gate at time of application; TS/SCI access must also be obtainable. A CI or FS Polygraph (or one held within the last 24 months) is listed under Preferred Qualifications.
The degree requirement is set to None because the JD explicitly accepts 4+ additional years of experience in lieu of any degree.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is framed as a DevOps/Infrastructure Product Owner who builds and deploys CI/CD pipelines (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but it also carries Agile Product Owner responsibilities and infrastructure operations duties that could lean toward 15-1244.
'Scripting' is listed as a required skill in the Basic Qualifications alongside specific tools; no specific language is named, so it is captured generically.
Agile Product Owner or Scrum Master experience is a hard gate per Basic Qualifications; captured as 'Agile' since no specific tooling platform is named.
Athena appears in the preferred troubleshooting list alongside Grafana/Prometheus/Flux CD/Karpenter; it is omitted as a skill because in this context it most likely refers to AWS Athena as a query service rather than a standalone DevOps tool, and the posting does not name it distinctly enough to warrant a separate entry — AWS already covers it.
Jenkins and GitLab are listed together under Preferred as interchangeable CI/CD pipeline options; emitted as one skill (Jenkins) with GitLab as an alternative, separate from the required GitLab Pipelines entry.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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