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RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time Description

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.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Sr. Principal Electronics Engineer – Hardware/Infrastructure Lead, to join our team in Rancho Bernardo, Ca. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct. This position will be in our Avionics Integration Organization.

Roles and Responsibilities will include:

Provide technical leadership and direction to a cross-functional team of cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure engineers.

Manage the team’s Jira project: lead scrums, define sprint plans, track progress, and resolve priority conflicts.

Maintain technical breadth across the datacenter and IT stack (compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, and observability).

Develop and execute a staffing and content delivery plan per the IFC roadmap.

Plan and release content for each IFC based on program milestones and technical dependencies.

Coordinate with the Product Owner to groom the backlog, prioritize work, and align deliverables to program milestones and technical risk.

Translate customer requirements into hardware, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Environment, Platform and Tenant design and delivery plans.

Define and review acceptance criteria with Product Owner and System Engineers to ensure consistent implementation and verification.

Participate in design and peer reviews; author technical design artifacts, runbooks, and test plans.

Decompose complex technical issues into concise executive briefs for program leadership and decision-making.

Provide hands-on mentorship, knowledge transfer, and technical oversight during solution implementation and integration.

Ensure configuration management, change control, and traceability for hardware and infrastructure designs and deployments.

Perform cost account planning, budgeting and earned value management.

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

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.

Experience leading a team

Hands on experience with server, storage, virtualization, and networking technologies in enterprise or defense datacenter environments.

Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid cloud architectures.

Strong working knowledge of network fundamentals and security best practices for infrastructure.

Proven ability to translate customer requirements into hardware/infrastructure designs, develop acceptance criteria, and produce technical documentation and runbooks.

Familiarity with configuration management, change control, and compliance requirements

Familiarity with earned value management

Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).

Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance

Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.

Certified Cost Account Manager

Familiar with systems engineering practices

Demonstrated experience using Agile tools and processes (Jira, sprint planning, backlog grooming, scrum ceremonies).

Experience with Microsoft Visio and other Office products to express engineering documentation

Knowledge of Cisco UCS Compute, NetApp ONTAP/StorageGrid, Cisco Nexus Networks, VMware virtualization (ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, NSX-T, Horizon) and Red Hat OpenShift

Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.

Primary Level Salary Range: $142,200.00 - $213,400.00

The 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. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.