Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect

Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available.
Clearance required for start: Yes.
Clearance type: Top Secret.
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time.

At Northrop Grumman, employees have opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world. Our pioneering spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history. We look for people with bold ideas, courage, and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have fun along the way.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Staff Electronics Engineer – Infrastructure Architect to our team in Rancho Bernardo, CA or Palmdale, CA, depending on the selected candidate’s preference.

• 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 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 and system‑responsible engineers to develop acceptance criteria for engineering design and implementation, ensuring consistency 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.

Candidate Commitment: The selected candidate will be required to work full‑time, on‑site at our facility. There is no remote, hybrid, or telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant STEM discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; or Master’s degree with 10 years; or PhD with 8 years.
• Experience developing and deploying highly scalable datacenter systems to support IaaS models.
• Experience designing and developing on‑premises and hybrid datacenter systems utilizing VMware ESXi/VCF and Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in scripting/programming languages such as Python, Power Shell, 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 tools such as Sphinx or MkDocs.
• Experience authoring and maintaining technical installation, configuration, and update documentation.
• Experience creating 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 in Continuous Evaluation).
• Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR) prior to commencement of employment.

• 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 ability to translate technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.

Salary and Benefits: Salary range: $177,000 - $265,600. Additional compensation may include overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses. Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company‑paid holidays, and paid time off.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer. U.S. Citizenship is required for positions with government clearance.