Principal Backend-SRE DevOps Software Engineer on Starfleet

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

About our local organization:  You'll be joining our Aurora Software and Controls Department which has 200+ Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, and Network Engineers from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects. This engineering organization supports numerous programs within the Payload and Ground Systems organization. We have plenty of opportunity for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions. We are part of a larger local engineering organization that includes Systems Engineering and Hardware Engineering staff. This overall local engineering organization influences cross-program collaboration, professional development and training, as well as engagement and inclusion activities such as lunch-n-learns, campus events, and leadership mixers.

About the program: As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll be joining an existing on-contract classified portfolio called Swordfish and one of its program’s we call “Starfleet” that is supporting a critical national security mission that is both in Operations and major development. The program team is based in Aurora, CO yet has a distributed team located at several other Northrop Grumman sites across the US as well as at distributed collaborating partner company sites. Some of the program’s baseline and environments are unclassified allowing some work outside a secure facility. Once you are fully program cleared, all developers must support integration, test, and deployment in the secure environment part of the time which ensures you see and understand the full software lifecycle and full program mission. The team located in Aurora is roughly 25 staff primarily composed of software developers organized into small agile scrum teams that primarily work in two large rooms with cubicle like individual spaces (rather than in dedicated offices). The program’s culture is agile, fast-paced, high performing, proactive, collaborative, and welcoming of new ideas, technology, and tools that could benefit the mission or help the team be more productive or produce a higher quality product.

This requisition is focused on a Full-Stack Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) DEVOPS Software Engineer role with a priority or focus on the Back-end. Software engineers at our Principal (T03) levels are expected to quickly gain mission and system domain knowledge coupling that with prior experience to mentor and influence others as well as contribute to advancing the program forward. The program appreciates engineers that identify and propose improvement ideas in technology, process, architecture, or tooling and are fast-learners on existing code bases. If you thrive in this kind of environment, then please apply so we can consider you.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science with 5+ years of software development experience; 3+ years with a Master's; or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required at time of application with ability to maintain TS/SCI clearance
• Ability to pass a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly) (not required to start)
• Experience with Agile principles, processes, and tools
• Experience developing applications in Java
• Experience developing applications in a containerized architecture using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience developing applications on a Linux/Unix operating system

Preferred Qualifications:

It is preferred that a given candidate have some combination of the following attributes

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar
• Prior completed Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)
• Prior engineering or development experience with the Space Industry
• Ability to effectively communicate and present to program management and customers
• Ability to effectively write technical documentation
• Experience sharing knowledge, mentoring, and working in a collaborative environment
• At least 3 years of experience developing object-oriented applications in Java
• At least 3 years of experience developing applications on Linux/Unix operating systems including proficiency with OS commands and shell scripting
• At least 3 years of experience developing in environment using Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, testing, and troubleshooting skills
• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, and networking
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks
• Active Security+ (or similar) certification
• Ability to travel (limited, up to 10%)

Salary Range: $110,300.00 - $165,500.00

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.