Engineer / Principal Engineer Software - Cloud & Applications

Northrop GrummanSan Diego, CA
$79,300 - $171,000Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Engineer or Principal Software Engineer - Cloud and Applications to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located onsite in El Segundo, CA, San Diego, CA or Melbourne, FL. In this role you will help adapt a suite of mobile control station software applications to a cloud environment, participating in building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure to deploy the solution to an Il-5 cloud environment including containerization, instrumentation, integration, security, and system test. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, DevOps, in an Agile software development environment.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of related engineering experience (for Engineer level)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience OR a PhD degree in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related engineering experience (for Principal Engineer level)
  • Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.
  • Experience with infrastructure components (VMs, containers, network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts)
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices
  • Experience with software-defined networking
  • Experience with a coding or scripting language (C, C++, Java, Python)
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence)

Nice To Haves

  • A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering
  • An active Secret or higher clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)
  • Certified (associate level or above) in a cloud platform (Azure Platform, AWS Platform)
  • CompTIA Security+ certification
  • CompTIA Cloud+ certification
  • Experience with administering cloud-based networking (ACL, Security Groups, WAF)
  • Demonstrated experience in cloud adoption, environment prototyping, and data migration
  • Knowledge of account management solutions (RBAC, AWS IAM, Azure AD)
  • Expertise leveraging git for code management (ArgoCD, Flux, Gitlab)
  • Experience leading teams of technical individuals

Responsibilities

  • Help adapt a suite of mobile control station software applications to a cloud environment.
  • Participate in building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure to deploy the solution to an Il-5 cloud environment.
  • Incorporate containerization, instrumentation, integration, security, and system test.
  • Work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, DevOps, in an Agile software development environment.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance may be available
  • Retirement and Savings Plan
  • Group medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Company paid holidays
  • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
  • Overtime
  • Shift differential
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Annual bonuses
  • Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)
© 2026 Teal Labs, Inc
Privacy PolicyTerms of Service