Staff Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect

About the role

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Staff Electronics Engineer - Infrastructure Architect to join our team in Rancho Bernardo, CA or Palmdale, CA. This role requires familiarity with Integrated Product Teams and experience in developing and deploying highly scalable datacenter systems.

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
• 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

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)
• Current applicable program access
• Experience leading a technical team including estimating, assigning, and tracking work
• 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

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $177,000.00 - $265,600.00 annually. Final salary will be determined based on several factors including the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.