Staff Engineer Software - Cloud & Applications

Northrop GrummanEl Segundo, CA
$177,000 - $265,600Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Staff Software Engineer - Cloud and Applications to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located onsite in El Segundo, 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 a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 12 years of experience; OR Master’s Degree in a STEM discipline with 10 years of relevant experience; OR PhD Degree in a STEM discipline with 8 years of relevant experience
  • Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs
  • 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 or Azure Platform or 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
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Phenomenal learning opportunities
  • Exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers
  • Friendly team environment
  • 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
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