Engineer/Principal Engineer Software - Cloud
Listed on 2026-07-01
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Software Development
Cloud Engineer - Software, Software Engineer, DevOps
Northrop Grumman Engineer or Principal Software Engineer
- Cloud and Applications
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.
Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for a Engineer or Principal Software Engineer
- Cloud and Applications to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located onsite in El Segundo, CA, San Diego, CA or Melbourne, FL.
In this role you will help adapt a suite of mobile control station software applications to a cloud environment, participating in building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure to deploy the solution to an Il-5 cloud environment including containerization, instrumentation, integration, security, and system test. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Dev
* Ops, in an Agile software development environment.
The individual we seek will be self-motivated, proactive, goal-oriented to help us grow our services, become even better at what we do and will possess the following qualifications.
** This role may be filled at either the Software Engineer or a Principal Software Engineer level based on the qualifications below.**
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of related engineering experience
- Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.
- Experience with infrastructure components (VMs, containers, network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices
- Experience with software-defined networking
- Experience with a coding or scripting language (C, C++, Java, Python)
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence)
Preferred
Qualification:
- A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering
- An active Secret or higher clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)
- Certified (associate level or above) in a cloud platform or
- Azure Platform
- AWS Platform
- CompTIA Security+ certification
- CompTIA Cloud+ certification
- Experience with administering cloud-based networking (ACL, Security Groups, WAF)
- Demonstrated experience in cloud adoption, environment prototyping, and data migration
- Knowledge of account management solutions (RBAC, AWS IAM, Azure AD)
- Expertise leveraging git for code management (ArgoCD, Flux, Gitlab)
- Experience leading teams of technical individuals
At Northrop Grumman we are invested in the growth and well-being off all our employees. We offer flexible work arrangements, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment.
Our Total Rewards Program offers a comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability…
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