RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret
TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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 is looking to add a Principal/ Sr Principal Electronics Engineer - SW Infrastructure Lead - to join the team of qualified individuals on our Avionics Team. This role is located onsite in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA.
The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is NO remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.
The successful candidate will be a results-oriented technical project lead and infrastructure manager covering projects across network architecture, infrastructure, and data storage, providing guidance and leadership to enable the buildup of a scalable infrastructure to support robust communication across assets, centralized capabilities, and data dissemination. This person needs to bring a collaborative leadership style, and the ability to drive technical maturation/evolution across a portfolio of programs, contracts, and Operating Units that will often have varied and/or conflicting needs. The successful leader acts as the Subject Matter Expert for network architecture and the buildup of our infrastructure and capabilities.
The SW Infrastructures Lead will rely on a significant breadth and depth of technical and leadership experience may include:
Attend SRB to represent infra where DRs impact infrastructure
Run separate infrastructure board similar to SRB (role would need to establish that process)
Define when build is ready
Ensure documentation is released
Ensure build is tested
Initially establish process for releasing infra builds
Update BOMs (Bill of Materials)
Ensure all Software is available on system (GIN)
Build hard drive\media
Complete paperwork to push build to various classified networks
Work with cyber on SW scan approvals
Ensure software support Bill of Materials released
Ensure cyber test is run on quarterly release to ensure improved cyber posture
Run Readiness Reviews (role would need to establish that process)
Technical leadership over the buildup of our network infrastructure and directly leads to the technical execution of network/infrastructure development and implementation.
Ownership over the development of all network documentation, including high-level and detailed design, topology depictions, port and protocol documentation, security boundaries/classifications, IP and tunneling, etc.
Leads the development, decomposition and documentation of system-segment-software/hardware requirements
Ensures the right solutions are being developed, via collaboration with internal stakeholders and end-user/customer counterparts.
Serves as a PoC for network/infrastructure reach-back.
Provides technical leadership over suppliers/subcontractors, as needed.
Supports risk mitigation and opportunity generation.
Basic Qualifications
Principal: Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related professional/military experience in Engineering, or Master's…