Logo
Northrop Grumman

Principal Engineer Software/Senior Principal Engineer Software

Northrop Grumman, Melbourne, Florida, United States, 32935


Requisition ID: R10135816

Category:

Engineering

Location:

Melbourne, Florida, United States of America

Clearance Type:

Secret

Telecommute:

No- Teleworking not available for this position

Shift:

1st Shift (United States of America)

Travel Required:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Assistance:

Relocation assistance may be available

Positions Available:

8

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems Sector

has an opening for a

Principal Engineer Software / Senior Principal Engineer Software

to join the

Global Surveillance Division

supporting a team of qualified, diverse individuals.

This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.

Responsibilities will include deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure running smoothly. The role requires hands-on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation and management along with continuous improvements. You will be a team member working in an agile development process. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of application builds, releases, deployment along with configuration activities. Your responsibilities will include working with internal business partners to gather requirements, prototyping, and architecting complex solutions supporting the building and test plan execution, performing quality reviews, and triaging and fixing operational issues. The candidate will assist with the integration, troubleshooting, and testing of implemented software changes. The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of ambiguous hard problems and drive to a solution while working in a team environment. It is critical that you understand the software development life cycle and have an in-depth knowledge of automated testing to facilitate and analyze large data sets. The Software Engineer will develop, modify, and maintain customized or standardized applications using software engineering best practices and standards, and participate in the full life cycle of software development, including requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.

Essential Functions:

Full lifecycle design, implementation, and unit testing of software

Work with various team members to integrate functionality with other software components

Ability to lead a team and/or provide leadership to drive solutions to complex problems

Gather and report software metrics

Support software working groups with the customer

Ensure software best practices

Develop software products from all phases of the software lifecycle

Basic Qualifications:

(Principal) Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 5 or more years of software development experience, or Master’s degree and 3 or more years of experience developing software or a PhD with 0 or more years of software development experience.

(Sr. Principal) Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 9 or more years of software development experience, or Master’s degree and 7 or more years of experience developing software or a PhD with 4 or more years of software development experience.

Demonstrated experience with bash scripting, Linux System Administration, and OS configuration

Demonstrated experience with multi-level security, and cybersecurity hardening

Demonstrated experience with documenting software requirements and test cases related to multi-level security and cybersecurity hardening

Experience with SELinux

Experience with Git version control

Demonstrated experience with C/C++ or other OOP languages

Experience with formal software tests and Weapon System evaluations

Understanding of software and system modeling with UML or SYSML

In-depth working knowledge in the use of containers (Docker, podman, Kubernetes, etc.)

In-depth working knowledge working with computer networking technologies and OSI model

In-depth working knowledge of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) architecture and implementations

In-depth working knowledge in configuration management using industry standard tools and processes

The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret level security clearance.

The ability to obtain and maintain a program special program access clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree with 10 or more years of experience developing software

Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams

Experience interfacing with customers and/or stakeholders

Familiarity with ship-based airborne radar platforms

Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite like Jira and Confluence

Familiarity with the Agile software development process

Working Knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) process

In Scope Active DoD Top Secret level security clearance

Program Special Program Access clearance

Salary Range:

$90,400 - $135,600Salary Range 2:

$112,000 - $168,000The 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.Employees may be eligible for 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.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.

#J-18808-Ljbffr