Principal Operations Systems Engineer – Level 3

Northrop Grumman • Aurora, CO

6d • $114,000 - $171,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Principal Operations Systems Engineer – Level 3 to join our team in Aurora, CO. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work. Please be aware that this position will be contingent upon capturing program award(s), obtaining and maintaining customer funding, and holding final clearances (if applicable) prior to start date. This role will support the operations of a 24x7 critical system located at a field site located in Aurora, CO. This position will include a comprehensive, 20-week training course intended to provide “street to seat” knowledge of a complex operational system of systems. At the completion of this training, the employee will perform a set of 12-hour crew shifts and complete and on-the-job (OJT) checklist to become a certified Senior System Controller (SSC).

Requirements

• Approved STEM Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of professional experience – OR – Approved STEM Master’s degree with 3 years of professional experience – OR – Approved STEM PhD with 1 year of professional experience.
• Requires an active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application. Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph required prior to start.
• Ability and willingness to work rotating 12-hour shifts which will be scheduled 5:30am to 5:30pm and 5:30pm to 5:30am 4 days on, 4 days off including weekends and holidays rotating days and nights.
• Proven leadership experience on a project and/or team.
• Experience in Linux

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work as an effective member of a badgeless team, be self-motivated, and work under general direction while independently determining and developing approaches to solutions

Responsibilities

• Development of products and CONOPs for the 24x7 operation of a mission critical system
• Troubleshooting of real-world operations issues
• Trending of operational data and simulation of products and CONOPs prior to transition to operations
• Returning systems to an operational state, ensuring the health and safety of the systems while maximizing mission availability
• Review or development of standard operating procedures that are executed real time on the operational system for standard events and anomaly recoveries
• Developing scripts and products to automate the operations of complex systems
• Develop suites of operational products for newly delivered systems
• Ability and willingness to work rotating 12-hour shifts which will be scheduled 5:30am to 5:30pm and 5:30pm to 5:30am 4 days on, 4 days off including weekends and holidays rotating days and nights.
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available
• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• overtime
• shift differential
• discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal