Principal Engineer Systems/Sr. Principal Engineer Systems - Operations & Maintenance

Company: Northrop Grumman
Location: Aurora
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you'll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking an Operations and Maintenance Engineer to provide support to the O&M team of a complex DevSecOps organization in the form of baseline delivery coordination, system issue tracking and leadership of anomaly investigations. As an O&M Engineer you will participate in sustainment of real-time largescale automatic and interactive processing and information management systems at multiple sites, including international. You will leverage our unsurpassed mission domain knowledge and site expertise to improve existing capabilities, lead delivery of new mission enhancements, and ensure we sustain high operational availability of multiple complex baselines. You will partner with the O&M Manager, O&M Deputy and other program leaders to improve software build pipelines and program Agile/DevSecOps processes to maximize our ability to respond to user needs. This position is located in Aurora, Colorado. Your primary project assignment manager will be the O&M Project Manager.

This requisition may be filled at a higher job grade based on the qualifications listed below.

Qualifications:

This requisition may be filled as either a Principal Engineer Systems or a Sr. Principal Engineer Systems.
Basic Qualifications for a Principal Engineer Systems:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline and 5+ years of relevant experience; 3+ years of relevant experience with a Master's degree; 0 years of relevant experience with a PhD.
• Working knowledge and practical experience in software development life cycle and methodologies
• Ability to work effectively in cross functional (operations, development, and management) teams
• Experience providing technical briefings to customer and/or leadership teams
• Familiarity with Agile/DevSecOps processes/tools and virtualized, cloud-based architectures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize work to ensure milestones are met
• Ability to support a 24/7 on-call operations support rotation
• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance able to obtain polygraph Basic Qualifications for a Sr. Principal Engineer Systems:
  • Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline and 9+ years of relevant experience; 7+ years of relevant experience with a Master's degree; 4+ years of relevant experience with a PhD.
  • Working knowledge and practical experience in software development life cycle and methodologies
  • Ability to work effectively in cross functional (operations, development, and management) teams
  • Experience providing technical briefings to customer and/or leadership teams
  • Familiarity with Agile/DevSecOps processes/tools and virtualized, cloud-based architectures
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize work to ensure milestones are met
  • Ability to support a 24/7 on-call operations support rotation
  • Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance able to obtain polygraph Preferred Qualifications:
    • Experience or familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) software pipelines
    • Familiarity with the Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)
    • Experience with supporting complex operational systems and real-time system anomalies
    • Experience with implementing process changes and efficiencies within a DevSecOps organization Principal Engineer Systems
      Salary Minimum: $96,600
      Salary Maximum: $144,900
      
      Sr. Principal Engineer Systems
      Salary Minimum: $119,784
      Salary Maximum: $179,676
      
      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. 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. Learn about Northrop Grumman Total Rewards and Benefits.
      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 www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions. Associated topics: chief program officer, cpo, manage, manager, management, monitor, product manager, project manager, relationship manager, task

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