Principal Engineer Software - Cloud and Infrastructure; Melbourne FL

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Secret

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% 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 Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Principal Engineer Software to join our Dev Ops and Cloud Infrastructure team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located on-site in Melbourne, Florida
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Dev Ops Engineer responsible for designing and managing the Cloud infrastructure. Duties include deploying product updates, setting up software factory, virtual machines, containers, and orchestration. The role will have a large impact on team productivity and as such requires an understanding of the software development lifecycle and various automation tools for developing digital pipelines (CI/CD pipelines).

You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Real-time & Embedded Software, Test Automation, Dev Ops and Systems Test, in an Agile software development environment. You will analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls.

Essential Functions:

• Work in a fast-paced environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative team settings across all levels
• Participate in the full software development life cycle including design, implementation, and delivery of software products to our customers
• Operate in a cloud technology development environment working with microservices, object-oriented programming, design patterns and pub-sub messaging
• Work in Agile Scrum teams to develop software products for multiple software baselines
• Collaborate with systems engineers, hardware designers and integration/test engineers to develop and maintain complex software systems

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of experience in software engineering OR a Master’s degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 3 years of experience in software engineering OR a PhD degree in a (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 1 year of experience.
• Experience with Agile Framework within the last 3 years.
• Experience implementing software and scripts in one or more Object Oriented Programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, and Python within the last 3 years.
• Experience with Software Change Control, Change Management, and CI/CD tools such as:
  Atlassian tool suite, Git Hub, Git Lab, AND/OR Jenkins within the last 3 years.
• Familiarity with at least one of the following Cloud technologies and service providers:
  Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft (MS) Azure, Google Cloud within the last 3 years.
• Active DoD Secret level clearance (in-scope), with the ability to obtain (and maintain) special program access (PAR) prior to commencement of employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent experience AND/OR Certification with cloud and container management & security technologies such as: VMWare, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Redhat Open Shift, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Nomad.
• Recent experience with at least one of the following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools:
  Ansible, Puppet, AND/OR Terraform.
• Recent experience Architecting, Designing, Implementing, Maintaining, and Administrating…