Northrop Grumman Australia · 3 hours ago
Senior Principal Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect
United States-California-Palmdale
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$142K/yr - $213K/yr
6+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense company seeking a Senior Principal Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect to join their team. The role involves providing technical leadership for cloud and infrastructure engineers, developing infrastructure solutions, and ensuring consistency across multiple business areas.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a relevant STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's 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)
Current SCI OR SCI eligibility
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
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
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase