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At a glance
Northrop Grumman is hiring a Electronic Engineer - SW Infrastructure in San Diego, CA. It is a full-time role in Software & IT, asking for at least 5 years of experience, first listed on November 4. The advertised pay is $91,800–$137,600 a year. The description mentions Test automation, CI/CD, Python, Java, C++ and MATLAB. Northrop Grumman has 149 other openings in the US, 10 of them in San Diego, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 75 Software & IT openings in San Diego, CA today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $190,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Northrop Grumman advertises $91,800 to $137,600 a year, a midpoint of $114,700 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is lower than about 97% of the 1,317 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $213,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman has 150 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 22 states. Most are in software & IT (93), operations (11) and engineering & mfg (8). The biggest locations are Roy, UT (20), San Diego, CA (11) and Baltimore, MD (10). 2% of them are remote, 8% are open to entry-level candidates and 98% show pay. We collect Northrop Grumman's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Workday), never from job boards or agencies.
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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 Electronics Engineer - SW Infrastructure to join our team in San Diego (Rancho Bernardo), CA. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Development/Production Team construct.
Roles and Responsibilities will include:
- Develop, integrate, and maintain an enterprise level toolset in support of cross-discipline engineering teams.
- Develop toolsets to exploit large sets of operational data supporting the maintenance of communication subsystems and advanced payload technologies.
- Collaborate and work in an engineering environment with Cloud & Application, Communications & Networking, Advanced Payload Technologies, Test Automation, DevSecOps, and Systems Test.
- Work with stakeholders to design, build and maintain mission critical systems.
- Identify technical risks/opportunities and proactively develop mitigation plans.
- Communicate the progress and accomplishments of the team to senior leadership.
- Create and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the software development life cycle.
- Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications.
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.
Basic Qualifications:
- Principal Engineer: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 years of related engineering experience.
- Sr. Principal Engineer: Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 4 years of related engineering experience.
- Experience in hands-on SW development with Python, Java, C++, and/or MATLAB to enable the exploitation of large sets of data.
- Experience in at least two of the following:
- Performing predictive trend analysis including the use of AI/ML techniques.
- Building and maintaining complex databases across multiple IT infrastructures.
- Container management tools such as Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker Swarm, Nomad, or Redhat OpenShift.
- Automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python.
- Performance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana.
- Must have an active US Government Top-Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
- Ability to obtain and maintain US Government SCI clearance
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.
- Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
- Experience supporting the Delivery Lead/Project Manager in developing project roadmaps, understanding delivery time scales, and communicating these to the customer.
- Experience creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Maven, Bamboo, GitLab, Bitbucket.
- Experience in migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud ready and implement micro services architecture.
- Experience automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling.
- Experience administering a Kubernetes container platform using Red Hat OpenShift.
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