Senior Principal Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect

Description

Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Senior Principal Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect to our team in Rancho Bernardo, CA or Palmdale, CA, depending upon the selected candidates preference. The candidate should have familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

• Understand and decompose customer requirements to support Infrastructure as a Service development and delivery across multiple business areas and baselines • Monitor external technology development and maturation both in industry and within the company, applying new technologies and principles across programs to build a consistent technical vision for data center systems • Participate in development and peer reviews • Work with Thread Leads as well as system Responsible Engineers to develop acceptance criteria for engineering design and implementation, ensuring consistency of implementation across multiple business areas and baselines • Lead new design and capture efforts across the enterprise to build the foundation for future systems and incorporate opportunities into existing programs • Decompose complex issues into high-level executive briefs for program leadership • Provide technical leadership to a team of cloud and infrastructure engineers • Provide technical leadership, direction, and knowledge transfer to other team members during the implementation of technical solutions

The 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Masters degree in a relevant STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a relevant STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience. • Experience developing and deploying highly scalable datacenter systems to support IaaS models • Experience designing and developing on-premises and hybrid datacenter systems utilizing technologies such as VMware ESXi/VCF and Microsoft Azure • Experience in scripting/programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, Visual Basic, .Net, Java, C, and C# • Experience designing and developing multi-tier storage solutions • Infrastructure automation experience with tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, etc. • Experience with automated documentation tool(s) such as Sphinx or MkDocs • Experience with or ability to author and maintain technical installation, configuration, and update documentation • Experience with or ability to create end-to-end infrastructure blueprints/roadmaps that meet scalability, reliability, security, and program SOW • Active DoD Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation). • Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR). This SAP/PAR must be obtained prior to commencement of employment and must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current applicable program access. • Experience leading a technical team including estimating, assigning, and tracking work • Experience with matrixed organizations and remote/distributed teams • Proven track record of building and mentoring high performing engineering teams. • Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management, and translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.