Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer – Hardware/Infrastructure Lead
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is hiring a Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer – Hardware/Infrastructure Lead for its Avionics Integration Organization in Rancho Bernardo, California. The role provides technical leadership for a cross-functional team working across cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure engineering. The candidate should be a self-starter and familiar with working in an Integrated Product Team construct. The position combines technical oversight and hands-on mentorship with team planning, delivery coordination, requirements translation, and cost account management. The selected candidate must work full-time on-site; remote, hybrid, and telework arrangements are not available. Travel of up to 25% may be required. An active Top Secret clearance is required at the start, and the role also requires the ability to obtain and maintain SCI and SAP clearances.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; or a master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; or a PhD in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience.
- Experience leading a team.
- Hands-on experience with server, storage, virtualization, and networking technologies in enterprise or defense datacenter environments.
- Practical experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Strong working knowledge of network fundamentals and infrastructure security best practices.
- Ability to translate customer requirements into hardware and infrastructure designs, develop acceptance criteria, and produce technical documentation and runbooks.
- Familiarity with configuration management, change control, and compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with earned value management.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance, with a background investigation within the past six years or enrollment in Continuous Evaluation.
- Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government SCI clearance.
- Ability to obtain and maintain SAP clearance within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
Nice To Haves
- Current applicable SAP clearance.
- Certified Cost Account Manager.
- Familiarity with systems engineering practices.
- Demonstrated experience using Agile tools and processes, including Jira, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and scrum ceremonies.
- Experience with Microsoft Visio and other Office products for engineering documentation.
- Knowledge of Cisco UCS Compute, NetApp ONTAP/StorageGrid, Cisco Nexus Networks, VMware virtualization (ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, NSX-T, Horizon), and Red Hat OpenShift.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface with employees and management at all levels.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and direction to a cross-functional team of cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure engineers.
- Manage the team’s Jira project, lead scrums, define sprint plans, track progress, and resolve priority conflicts.
- Maintain technical breadth across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, and observability.
- Develop and execute a staffing and content delivery plan aligned with the IFC roadmap.
- Plan and release content for each IFC based on program milestones and technical dependencies.
- Coordinate with the Product Owner to groom the backlog, prioritize work, and align deliverables with program milestones and technical risk.
- Translate customer requirements into hardware, IaaS, Environment, Platform, and Tenant design and delivery plans.
- Define and review acceptance criteria with the Product Owner and System Engineers to support consistent implementation and verification.
- Participate in design and peer reviews; author technical design artifacts, runbooks, and test plans.
- Decompose complex technical issues into concise executive briefs for program leadership and decision-making.
- Provide hands-on mentorship, knowledge transfer, and technical oversight during solution implementation and integration.
- Ensure configuration management, change control, and traceability for hardware and infrastructure designs and deployments.
- Perform cost account planning, budgeting, and earned value management.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
