Sr Principal Software Engineer - Cloud

Northrop Grumman•San Diego, CA

2d•$142,200 - $213,400•Onsite

About The Position

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Sr. Principal Software Engineer. This role is located on site in El Segundo, CA or San Diego, CA. 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 STEM with 8 years of Software Engineering experience, or a Master's degree in STEM with 6 years of Software Engineering experience, or a PhD in STEM with 4 years on Software Engineering experience
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 micro-services
Experience with software-defined networking
Experience with a coding or scripting language
Experience in a Cloud platform
Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence)
Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, organizational, and multi-tasking skills

Nice To Haves

An active Secret or higher clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)
Certified (associate level or above) in a cloud platform or Azure Platform (>= Azure Administrator Associate) or AWS Platform (>= Solutions Architect Associate)
Completed degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering
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)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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)
Build infrastructure to deploy the solution to an Il-5 cloud environment including 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