Principal/Sr. Principal Infrastructure Systems Engineer

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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is looking for you to join our team as a Principal Infrastructure Systems Engineer/Sr Principal Infrastructure Systems Engineer based out of Aurora, CO.

What You’ll get to Do:

• Work with stakeholders to design, build and maintain mission critical systems

• Assemble system rack elevations, creating BOMs, identifying equipment to purchase

• Derive system level requirements into IT requirements

• Coordinate the development and execution of tests to verify IT systems and services meet their requirements before handing off to the system integration team

• Contribute to process improvement and tool automation initiatives

• Perform IT related trade studies in support of the IT Architect

• Perform SWAP (Space, Weight, and Power) analysis

• Perform lifecycle and sparing analysis

This position may be filled at a higher job grade based on the qualifications listed below.

This position may be filled as either a Principal or Sr. Principal Systems Engineer.

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; 3 years with a Master's; 0 years with a PhD

• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI clearance or TS with SCI eligibility at time of application

• Familiarity with servers and processing requirements, familiarity with information technology

• Systems engineering experience

Basic Qualifications for a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 9 years of relevant experience; 7 years with a Master's; 4 years with a PhD

• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI clearance or TS with SCI eligibility at time of application

• Familiarity with servers and processing requirements, familiarity with information technology

• Systems engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with developing requirements for infrastructure to support software processing

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