Sr Staff Engineer Software

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% 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 DevSecOps Technical Discipline has an opening for a Sr. Staff Engineer Software who will be responsible for leading the overall DevOps secure software factory gold standard adoption, rollout, and updates for all east coast programs (shared with west coast). This role is located in Melbourne, FL.

In this role the candidate will be working with the latest technology to modernize software product production with DevSecOps - continuous build, continuous integration, continuous test, continuous cyber, continuous deployment, and continuous metrics on aerospace programs. Specifically, the candidate will be responsible for the design, architecture, development, deployment, and operation of modern DevSecOps software factory. The candidate will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Systems Engineering, Real-time & Embedded Software, Test Automation, and Systems Test in an Agile software development environment. 
 
Key Responsibilities
Lead the adoption of software factory standard and deployment of software factory reference implementations on programs

• Lead the discussion, influence, and documentation of best practices, standard process, and standard tools into engineering authoritative source of truth for process and tools
• Lead the metrics automation and engineering review on programs
• Lead the training of users on DevSecOps lifecycle best practices - continuous build, continuous integration, continuous test, continuous cyber, and continuous deployment pipeline across programs
• Lead the standup of large-scale software factory used by software teams
• Lead the definition, design, and implementation all segments of DevSecOps lifecycle - continuous build, continuous integration, continuous test, continuous cyber, and continuous deployment pipeline on a program
• Planning and presenting short, medium, and long term fix for DevOps issues to programs and leadership aligning industry and program trends to solutions.

We offer flexible work arrangements, 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. We are looking for self-motivated, proactive, and goal-oriented people to help us grow our services and become even better at what we do.
 
Basic Qualifications: 

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline AND 14 years of related professional/military experience in Software Engineering to include a background in the agile development lifecycle, OR a Master’s degree AND 12 years of related professional/military experience in Software Engineering to include a background in agile development lifecycle, OR a Ph.D. AND 10 years of related professional experience in Software Engineering
• Experience with configuration of virtual machines (VMs) and virtual networks (VPC, NSX-T, NSX-V)
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Interim Secret clearance

• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance
   
  Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification with cloud technology (AWS, VMWare, Azure, Kubernetes) at the professional level
• Experience with at least one object-oriented programming language (Java, JavaScript, C++, C#, Python, Swift) and software development lifecycle
• Experience with developing software using agile processes (Kanban, Scrum, Scrumban)
• Experience with one of the foll