Principal Engineer Software

• Location: San Diego, California, United States of America
• Clearance Type: Top Secret
• Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
• Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
• Travel Required: Yes, 25% of the Time
• Positions Available: 1

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. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Principal Software Engineer 3 to join the Systems Infrastructure Engineering (SIE) team based out of the Autonomous Design Center of Excellence (CoE) in San Diego, California.

You will manage a suite of strategic UAV ground segment infrastructure hardware, custom software, and work with developers to enable continuous integration (CI) of system software through quarterly updates. This position will be on a cross-functional team, and good communication skills are a must. The job will involve leading (scrum master) an Agile scrum team to execute and automate infrastructure maintenance and user services.

The successful candidate will collaborate with the team to quickly develop innovative solutions to resolve challenging problems and work with cross-functional teams to identify, characterize and resolve issues originating from operational fielded systems.

Finally, the candidate will prioritize automating system tasks (preflight and postflight operations, network health and status checks, configuration management procedures, and software updates) to improve the team’s efficiency and productivity.

The roles and responsibilities of this position include (but are not limited to):

1. Leading a team of engineers and providing daily tasking that’s consistent with the current priorities
2. Maintaining an Agile development workflow that’s already established
3. Administration and troubleshooting of Linux (RHEL / CENTOS) 6/7/8 servers and workstations
4. Administration and troubleshooting of Windows Server 2008 / 2016, and Windows 7 / 10 systems
5. Administration and troubleshooting of VMWare vSphere systems (VCSA and ESXi)
6. Automate system maintenance tasks with scripting tools (PowerShell, Python, Ansible, etc.)
7. Enforce cybersecurity compliance through the use of security frameworks and remediation tools (SCC SCAP scanner, STIG Viewer, and eventually Nessus)
8. Maintain proper configuration management with engineering document lifecycle tools (Team Center Enterprise)

Basic Qualifications:

1. 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree in a related STEM discipline (9 years relevant experience without a Bachelor’s in STEM); or 2 years relevant experience with a Master's degree in a related STEM discipline
2. Candidate must have, and be able to maintain a US SECRET security clearance
3. Minimum of 4 years installing, configuring, maintaining and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6/7/8 servers and workstations
4. Minimum of 4 years installing, configuring, maintaining and administration of Windows-based servers and workstations
5. Meets DoD IAT requirements for security certification for classified systems administrators, or be in the process of obtaining one (i.e., Security+, CISSP, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Active US TOP SECRET clearance
2. Experience with VMWare infrastructure
3. Experience with Ansible
4. Certification from VMWare, Windows (MCSE), and/or RedHat with Satellite Administration
5. US Passport and ability to frequently travel overseas

Salary Range: $107,300 - $160,900

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