CI/CD Pipeline Administrator (Engineer Systems 3)
Date: Oct 6, 2026
Location: Port Hueneme, CA, California, United States
Company: HII's Mission Technologies division
Requisition Number: 30542
Required Travel: 0 - 10%
Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt
Anticipated Salary Range: $99,960.00 - $140,000.00
Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain
Level of Experience: Mid
This opportunity resides with Global Security (GS). Mission Technologies’ Global Security (GS) group comprises live, virtual, constructive (LVC) solutions; fleet sustainment; nuclear and environmental; and Australia business.
As a trusted partner to our military customers, HII designs, develops and operates the largest LVC enterprise that prepares warfighters for cross-domain battle. With advanced technologies to enable mission readiness, HII understands that preparation requires full coordination—not readiness in piece-parts.
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Navy has entrusted HII to maintain and modernize the vast majority of its fleet. With a holistic approach to life-cycle maritime defense systems—from small watercraft to submarines, surface combatants and aircraft carriers—HII ensures a high state of readiness.
HII supports the Department of Energy’s national security mission through the management and operation of its sites, as well as the safe cleanup of legacy waste across the country. HII meets clients’ toughest nuclear and environmental challenges.
Leadership Mindset at HII – Mission Technologies
Leadership at HII is a mindset, not a title. Through our Leadership Capability Framework, we define how every employee grows, leads, and contributes—regardless of role. It sets the standard for how you can develop yourself and what you can expect from leaders across our organization. We look for candidates who want to grow in alignment with these capabilities:
- Know & Grow Your People – Commit to learning and supporting team success.
- Build Relationships – Communicate openly, collaborate well, and build trust.
- Take Ownership – Deliver on commitments and take pride in your work.
- Customer First – Focus on the mission and those we serve.
- Shape the Future – Bring ideas, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
- Act with Urgency – Take initiative and follow through with purpose.
These capabilities guide how all employees contribute to our shared success across Mission Technologies.
Job Description
We are currently seeking an experienced CI/CD Pipeline Administrator to support the development, administration, security, automation, and continuous improvement of software delivery environments supporting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD).
This position will administer and support the organization's GitHub Enterprise environment and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines used to build, test, secure, package, and deploy software applications.
The successful candidate will work closely with application developers, cybersecurity professionals, system administrators, database administrators, cloud/infrastructure personnel, and customer stakeholders to establish reliable, secure, automated, and repeatable software-delivery processes. This individual will maintain the tools and infrastructure supporting the software development lifecycle, standardize repository and pipeline configurations, troubleshoot build and deployment issues, and help implement DevSecOps practices consistent with Navy cybersecurity requirements.
Essential Job Responsibilities
• Administer, maintain, secure, and support GitHub Enterprise environments, organizations, repositories, teams, and associated development services.
• Manage user permissions, role-based access, repository access, authentication, and other security controls within GitHub Enterprise.
• Establish and maintain branching strategies, protected branches, pull-request requirements, code-review processes, release procedures, and repository standards.
• Develop, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot GitHub Actions workflows supporting automated software builds, testing, security scanning, packaging, and deployment.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting applications throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Manage GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners, including configuration, security, availability, capacity, software dependencies, updates, and connectivity to approved development environments.
• Develop reusable workflows, pipeline templates, automation scripts, and configuration standards that promote consistent development and deployment practices across multiple projects.
• Automate repetitive development, build, testing, security, configuration, and deployment activities using appropriate scripting and automation technologies.
• Integrate automated unit testing, code-quality analysis, dependency scanning, vulnerability scanning, secrets detection, approval gates, and other cybersecurity controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with cybersecurity personnel to incorporate security requirements throughout the software development and delivery lifecycle.
• Support DevSecOps practices that integrate software development, cybersecurity, testing, infrastructure, and operations.
• Configure and maintain secrets, credentials, certificates, tokens, service accounts, and other pipeline dependencies using approved security practices.
• Support controlled application deployments to Microsoft Azure, Azure App Service, on-premises environments, development/test environments, and other approved hosting platforms.
• Monitor pipeline execution, identify failures and performance issues, troubleshoot root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Troubleshoot build, test, packaging, integration, and deployment failures across development environments.
• Coordinate with development, infrastructure, database, cloud, and cybersecurity teams to maintain reliable pipeline dependencies and deployment environments.
• Assist development teams with repository configuration, workflow development, pipeline troubleshooting, and adoption of standardized DevSecOps practices.
• Support source-code management, versioning, release management, configuration management, and artifact-management processes.
• Participate in infrastructure and application modernization efforts involving automated build and deployment capabilities.
• Monitor the health, performance, reliability, availability, and capacity of CI/CD infrastructure and supporting services.
• Maintain appropriate logging, auditing, monitoring, and traceability for software delivery activities.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, configuration records, architecture diagrams, audit evidence, troubleshooting guidance, and knowledge-base information.
• Provide technical assistance, guidance, and training to developers and other technical personnel on GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
• Evaluate emerging DevOps and DevSecOps tools and technologies and recommend improvements to software-delivery processes.
• Communicate technical issues, risks, requirements, and solutions effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• Must be a US citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance for the duration of employment.
• Possess and maintain a current CompTIA Security+ certification.
Desired Technical Experience
Relevant experience may include one or more of the following:
• GitHub Enterprise
• GitHub Actions
• Git and distributed source control
• CI/CD pipeline development and administration
• DevOps and DevSecOps practices
• Build and release engineering
• GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
• Microsoft Azure
• Azure App Service
• Azure DevOps or comparable DevOps platforms
• PowerShell, Bash, Python, or comparable scripting languages
• YAML-based pipeline and workflow configuration
• Windows and/or Linux systems administration
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or comparable technologies
• Docker and container technologies
• Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration platforms
• Artifact and package management
• Automated software testing
• Static and dynamic application security testing
• Software composition and dependency analysis
• Vulnerability and secrets scanning
• Identity and access management
• Certificates, service accounts, tokens, and secrets management
• Application deployment and configuration management
• Logging, monitoring, and observability
• Agile software development environments
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices
• DoD or Navy cybersecurity environments
Preferred Requirements
• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a qualifying related field.
• Possess a minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in systems administration.
Physical Requirements
The listed salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, HII's Mission Technologies division takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function and a candidate's education or training, work experience, and key skills.
Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.
To learn more about Mission Technologies, click here for a short video: https://vimeo.com/732533072
HII is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.
Why HII
We build the world’s most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. Our workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.
Recognized as one of America’s top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people’s safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you’ll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.
Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
Do You Need Assistance?
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to buildyourcareer@hii-co.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. Additionally, you may also call 1-844-849-8463 for assistance. Press #3 for HII Mission Technologies.