Staff Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +2 · Electrical

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect to design and develop scalable datacenter systems, including on-premises and hybrid solutions. The role involves infrastructure automation, scripting, storage solutions, and providing technical leadership to cloud and infrastructure engineers. A Top Secret clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand and decompose customer requirements to support Infrastructure as a Service development and delivery across multiple business areas and baselines
  2. 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
  3. Participate in development and peer reviews
  4. 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
  5. Lead new design and capture efforts across the enterprise to build the foundation for future systems and incorporate opportunities into existing programs

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant STEM discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a relevant STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a relevant STEM discipline and 8 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)
  • Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR)

Nice to have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • Active DoD Top Secret clearance
  • Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR)