Principal Software Engineer/Sr. Principal Software Engineer

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.

We are looking for you to join our team as a Software DevOps Engineer based out of Rolling Meadows, IL.  As a Software DevOps Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.  Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.  The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation

Job Requirements:

- Deploy CI/CD frameworks that automate code generation, builds, testing at both the unit and system test levels, releases and documentation.

- Deploying the solutions in cloud and virtualized environments.

- Developing back end environments for storing testing data and results

- Developing web-based front end dashboard applications for reporting and analysis.

- Maintaining dependency management and container environments

- Work in a fast paced Agile type environment

This position can be filled at the Principal or Sr. Principal level:

Basic Qualifications for Principal DevOps Engineer:

-  Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field and 5+ years of experience; 3+ years of experience with Master's Degree or in lieu of degree an additional 4+ years of experience is required.

-Experience maintaining internet facing production grade applications in virtualized environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform

-Experience writing scripts in one or more languages such as Python, Java Go and/or similar

-Experience working with technical customers

-Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenStack, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Jenkins).

- Familiarity with languages: C/C++, Python, DML and Simics.

- Familiarity with Operating Systems: VxWorks and ability to develop/debug RTOS drivers.

- Automated Validation and Verification Experience (Unit Tests, Integration Tests, etc.)

- “Full-stack” (willing to work at multiple different layers of the product/testing ecosystem)

- Understanding of Agile/Scrum Methodologies

- US Citizen and must have Interim Secret Clearance prior to start.  Once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain active Secret clearance

Basic Qualifications for Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer:

-  Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field and 9+ years of experience; 7+ years of experience with Master's Degree or in lieu of degree an additional 4+ years of experience is required.

-Experience maintaining internet facing production grade applications in virtualized environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform

-Experience writing scripts in one or more languages such as Python, Java Go and/or similar

-Experience working with technical customers

-Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenStack, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Jenkins).

- Familiarity with languages: C/C++, Python, DML and Simics.

- Familiarity with Operating Systems: VxWorks and ability to develop/debug RTOS drivers.

- Automated Validation and Verification Experience (Unit Tests, Integration Tests, etc.)

- “Full-stack” (willing to work at multiple different layers of the product/testing ecosystem)

- Understanding of Agile/Scrum Methodologies

- US Citizen and must have Interim Secret Clearance prior to start.  Once started, must have the ability to obtain and maintain active Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

-Experience working with scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers/Firewalls and web standards (REST APIs, web security mechanisms)

-Understanding of open source server software (NGINX, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch)

-Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as encryption, certificates and key management.

Salary Range: $99,800 USD - $149,800 USD

Salary Range 2: $123,800 USD - $185,800 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.