Yesterday
Secret
Unspecified
Unspecified
IT - Software
Melbourne, FL (On-Site/Office)
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 Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking a Principal Engineer Software/Senior Principal Engineer Software to join our Global Surveillance Division team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.
This position, Principal Engineer Software/Senior Principal Engineer Software is focused on securing software infrastructure, operating systems hardening and network security as a software assurance architect.
Responsibilities will include deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure for rapid deployment and maintainability of the infrastructure. Software containerization, securing applications, Operating System hardening and network security, deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure for rapid deployment and maintainability of the infrastructure fall under this position. You will be required to have hands-on technical experience with virtualization, environment automation and management, and continuous improvements experience. You will be expected to take ownership of hard problems and drive toward a solution, while working in a multi-disciplined team environment. You will be required to 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, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.
The Software Engineer will apply technical expertise in solving complex integrations problems. The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation. 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 interact with Program Management, external suppliers and/or government customers. Therefore, excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills are required. A solid experience in bash scripting, C/C++, or other OOP languages, in a Linux environment is required. The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD secret security clearance and Special Program Access is required.
The selected individual will play a critical role in the design, development, and delivery of the program's deployment strategy and network architecture.
Essential Functions:
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Salary Range: $95,300.00 - $142,900.00Salary Range 2: $118,600.00 - $178,000.00
The 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.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
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 Aeronautics Systems Sector is seeking a Principal Engineer Software/Senior Principal Engineer Software to join our Global Surveillance Division team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, Florida.
This position, Principal Engineer Software/Senior Principal Engineer Software is focused on securing software infrastructure, operating systems hardening and network security as a software assurance architect.
Responsibilities will include deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure for rapid deployment and maintainability of the infrastructure. Software containerization, securing applications, Operating System hardening and network security, deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving the systems and software infrastructure for rapid deployment and maintainability of the infrastructure fall under this position. You will be required to have hands-on technical experience with virtualization, environment automation and management, and continuous improvements experience. You will be expected to take ownership of hard problems and drive toward a solution, while working in a multi-disciplined team environment. You will be required to 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, to include requirements development, modeling and design, application development, unit to CSCI testing, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance.
The Software Engineer will apply technical expertise in solving complex integrations problems. The ideal candidate will have the ability to take ownership of hard problems and drive to a solution, while working in a team environment and provide leadership for its implementation. 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 interact with Program Management, external suppliers and/or government customers. Therefore, excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills are required. A solid experience in bash scripting, C/C++, or other OOP languages, in a Linux environment is required. The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD secret security clearance and Special Program Access is required.
The selected individual will play a critical role in the design, development, and delivery of the program's deployment strategy and network architecture.
Essential Functions:
- Work closely with engineers and technicians in a lab environment
- Advise on integration of new emerging industry technologies to the program's systems
- Implement engineering changes to the system as required
- Review, analyze, and incorporate technical requirements into end-to-end system architectures
- Responsible for implementing the network configurations as designed, and coordinating with peers, SMEs, and government engineers on hardening and securing of the system as a whole
- Occasional travel may be required
- Willingness to work Temporary/short-term off-peak hours assignments for time constrained HW/SW integration efforts
- 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 of complex problems.
- Ensure software best practices are followed.
- Develop software products from all phases of the software lifecycle.
- Providing technical solutions to a wide range of complex difficult problems that are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with programs objectives.
- Contributing to the full life cycle of system development in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. This includes requirements development, modeling and design, application development, integration, formal system testing, release, installation, and maintenance
- Meeting milestones and deadlines by providing best in class solutions
- Develop and share technical documentation and presentations
- Adhering to and following roadmaps, plans, and schedules
- Working closely with the software lead(s) following their guidance
Basic Qualifications:
- Principal Software Engineer: Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 5 or more years software engineering experience, or Master's degree and 3 or more years' software engineering experience or a PhD with 0 or more years software engineering experience.
- Senior Principal Software Engineer: Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 8 or more years software engineering experience, or Master's degree and 6 or more years' software engineering experience or a PhD with 4 or more years software engineering experience.
- Ability to work independently and identify solutions to complex problems.
- In-depth working knowledge of the full software development life cycle.
- In-depth working knowledge with the Agile software development process.
- In-depth working knowledge and experience with C/C++, Java, Rust(preferred), or other OOP languages.
- Experience implementing and developing in containers.
- Knowledge of microservices architectures.
- Expert knowledge and experience developing software in a Linux and Windows environment.
- Experience with configuration management using industry standard tools and processes.
- Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite, plugins, Git and Confluence
- Experience with Firewall, VPN, switch, and router configuration
- Experience with authentication and data encryption methods, to include securing communications at either the datalink or network layer
- Active certification at DOD 8570 IAT Level II (Security+)
- Ability to work well across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.
- Candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Government DOD Secret Clearance
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain special program access
Preferred Qualifications:
- In-scope DoD Top Secret clearance with a program PAR
- Experience building, deploying, and maintaining microservices architectures in Azure, AWS, or hybrid environments
- Experience with containerization technology (e.g. Podman, Docker)
- Experience with container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience with virtualization technology (e.g. VirtualBox, QEMU, KVM, vmWare)
- Experience with network security (SELinux, CIPSO, SECMARK)
- Experience with multilevel security solutions
- Experience with configuration and management of Cisco, Palo Alto, or Juniper network appliances
- Experience with the NCDSMO cybersecurity standards
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Atlassian tools
- Experience applying commercial products to military applications.
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) techniques and tools.
Salary Range: $95,300.00 - $142,900.00Salary Range 2: $118,600.00 - $178,000.00
The 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.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
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