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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.Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Electronics Engineer - SW Infrastructure to join our team in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Development/Production Team construct.\nRoles and Responsibilities will include:\nDevelop, integrate, and maintain an enterprise level toolset in support of cross-discipline engineering teams.\nDevelop toolsets to exploit large sets of operational data supporting the maintenance of communication subsystems and advanced payload technologies.\nCollaborate and work in an engineering environment with Cloud & Application, Communications & Networking, Advanced Payload Technologies, Test Automation, DevSecOps, and Systems Test.\nWork with stakeholders to design, build and maintain mission critical systems.\nIdentify technical risks/opportunities and proactively develop mitigation plans.\nCommunicate the progress and accomplishments of the team to senior leadership.\nCreate and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the software development life cycle.\nContinuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications.\nThe selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is NO remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.\nBasic Qualifications:\n Principal Engineer: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 years of related engineering experience. \n Sr. Principal Engineer: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) 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. \nExperience in hands-on SW development with Python, Java, C++, and/or MATLAB to enable the exploitation of large sets of data. \nExperience in at least two of the following:Performing predictive trend analysis including the use of AI/ML techniques. \nBuilding and maintaining complex databases across multiple IT infrastructures.\nContainer management tools such as Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker Swarm, Nomad, or Redhat OpenShift.\nAutomating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python.\nPerformance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana.\n\nMust have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).\nAbility to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance \nMust have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nStrong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.\nCurrent applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance\nExperience supporting the Delivery Lead/Project Manager in developing project roadmaps, understanding delivery time scales, and communicating these to the customer.\nExperience creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Maven, Bamboo, GitLab, Bitbucket.\nExperience in migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud ready and implement micro services architecture.\nExperience automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling.\nExperience administering a Kubernetes container platform using Red Hat OpenShift.\nPrimary Level Salary Range: $91,800.00 - $137,600.00The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. 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