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Embark on a career putting innovative, reliable, and agile products and ideas into orbit, and beyond. Northrop Grumman has opportunities waiting for you that play a vital role in human space exploration, national defense, and scientific discovery, supporting multiple programs across the universe. With us, you’ll discover a culture of curiosity and collaboration that will have you Defining Possible from the day you start. Our space systems connect and protect millions of people on earth every day, now and for the future. Explore your future and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Software Engineer. This position will be located in Roy, Utah and will support the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program

What You’ll Get To Do:

This position will support our program as a DevSecOps Principal Software Engineer. In this role, the successful applicant will design, develop, document, test and debug applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions. Specific duties to include, but are not limited to the following:

• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.

• Determine computer user needs

• Analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls.

• Prepares operating instructions

• Designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.

• Ensures software standards are met.

• The ideal candidate will have experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an enterprise environment.

• Participate in the standup and growth of multiple large scale software factory used by software team

• Integration of continuous build, continuous integration, continuous test, and continuous deployment pipeline systems

• Utilize strong communication skills to work with Software IPT, chief engineers, and development teams

• Maintains smooth operation of multi-user systems, including coordination with network administrators.

• An active DOD Secret security clearance with adjudication within the past 5 years or in continuous evaluation program

• The selected candidate should thrive in an environment with, diverse assignments and collaborative/team settings across all levels

• Ability to work on diverse projects and varied daily activities within a collaborative environment.

• Support Agile Software/Hardware teams on pipeline builds, software installation, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring of the Software build *Integration*

This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Job Qualifications:

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

Principal Engineer:

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 5 years of related engineering experience or 4 additional years in lieu of a degree, or a Master's and 3 years of related engineering experience or 4 additional years in lieu of a degree

Sr. Principal Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of related experience or 4 additional years in lieu of a degree, or a Master's Degree and 7 years of related experience or 4 additional years in lieu of a degree, or PhD and 4 years of related experience

• Active Secret clearance with adjudication within the past 5 years with ability to obtain SAP

• Familiarity with containers and orchestration using Docker or Kubernetes and/or automation scripting to improve operational efficiencies

• Experience in software development build tools (i.e., Maven, Ant) and continuous integration environments (i.e., Jenkins,TeamCity, GitLab)

• Direct experience in Linux/ Windows Administration, experience with Virtualization technology.

• Experience administering and configuring the full Atlassian tool suite (Confluence, JIRA, GIT, Crucible, FishEye, Crowd)

• Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT II (ie. Security+ CE, SSCP, GSEC, etc) certification within the first 90 days

• Familiarity with containers and orchestration using Docker or Kubernetes and/or automation scripting to improve operational efficiencies

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Ability to automate software builds and releases via Maven & Nexus

• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or an equivalent

• Experience with AWS/Azure/Cloud-based systems

• Experience with developing formal builds within the DoD industry

• Certification from VMWare and Cisco is a plus

• Experience with VMware infrastructure and automation

• Keen understanding of the software development life cycle

• Experience using the Agile methodology

• Current DoD 8570 IAT II certification

• An active Top Secret clearance with adjudication within the past 5 years and ability to obtain a SAP

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Space Systems, you are eligible for our robust benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts

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Salary Range: $87,600 USD - $131,400 USD

Salary Range 2: $108,600 USD - $163,000 USD

Employees may be eligible for 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 health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.