DevOps Engineer – Level 5 at Northrop Grumman
Dulles, VA
$177,000–$265,600from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Dulles, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level DevOps engineering role focused on automating cloud-native infrastructure, deploying containerized applications, and writing infrastructure-as-code within a classified (SCIF) environment. The position involves working with Kubernetes, OpenStack, Terraform, and monitoring tools, while also mentoring teammates and providing technical leadership. Suited to experienced DevOps practitioners holding an active TS/SCI clearance.
Staff level · 12+ years · Remote · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (10)
The job posting explicitly states '100% onsite' in Dulles, VA and 'cannot accommodate telecommute work.' The caller's instruction to set remote=true has been overridden by the posting's own hard requirement — remote=false is reported to reflect the actual work arrangement. A national candidate pool assumption would be misleading for this role.
The role is titled 'DevOps Engineer – Level 5' and Northrop Grumman's Basic Qualifications section labels Level 5 as 'Staff level,' which is why seniority is set to Staff — this is an explicit company-defined band, not inferred from years alone.
Degree requirement is set to None because the JD explicitly accepts 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
Total years minimum is set to 12, reflecting the Bachelor's + 12 years path (the most common baseline); the JD also accepts Master's + 10 or PhD + 8.
Nagios is listed in the job responsibilities section with firm language ('Ensure monitoring and health of the resources deployed via Nagios or other enterprise management solutions'); treated as a hard gate on monitoring capability with Nagios as the named tool.
OpenStack appears in both the responsibilities narrative and the Preferred Qualifications section; it is listed as preferred.
Jenkins/GitLab CI appear under Preferred Qualifications as interchangeable CI/CD options.
An active TS/SCI clearance is required at time of application — this is a hard gate that will significantly constrain the candidate pool.
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.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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