DevOps Engineer - Level 3/4 at Northrop Grumman
Redondo Beach, CA
$114,000–$213,400from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Redondo Beach, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-to-senior DevOps engineering role focused on building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning, and managing containerized workloads in cloud and on-premises environments. Day-to-day work spans configuration management, code quality tooling, system monitoring, and supporting software configuration management practices across a broad stack of DevOps technologies. An active SCI or Top Secret clearance is required at the time of application.
Senior level · 5+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This posting covers two levels (Level 3 and Level 4); the salary range spans both ($114,000–$171,000 for Level 3; $142,200–$213,400 for Level 4). Total experience minimum is set to 5 years (the lowest qualifying threshold for Level 3 with a Bachelor's degree).
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Systems Administrators (15-1244) because the JD emphasizes building, automating, and developing CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and containerized systems — not merely operating existing infrastructure. The alt code 15-1244 is noted given the significant infrastructure operations component.
Clearance gate: candidates must hold an active SCI, or an active TS with the ability to obtain SCI before start. This is a hard requirement at time of application.
The IaC requirement lists 'Ansible, Terraform, and/or AWS' — these are not fully interchangeable (Ansible is config management, Terraform is IaC, AWS is a cloud platform), but the JD groups them under a single 'such as' gate. Ansible and Terraform are emitted as alternatives of each other under the IaC skill; AWS is separately captured as the cloud environment requirement.
Containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) are listed as a single 'or' requirement; Docker and Kubernetes are each emitted as separate skills with the other as an alternative, reflecting that both appear prominently elsewhere in the JD's stack description.
Preferred qualifications include microservices experience, API/Container Security, Atlassian tools, web frameworks (Angular/React), server-side languages (Python, C++, Node.js, Go), and SQL/NoSQL — all listed under the 'Preferred Qualifications' heading.
Position is contingent on program award and candidate obtaining final clearances and program access within a reasonable timeframe.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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