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Sentinel Principal / Sr Principal Cyber Software Engineer 13023

Northrop Grumman
ALHU12, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Apr 2025
💰 $216,400/yr($104,800/yr$216,400/yr)

About the role

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.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Principal / Sr Principal Cyber Software Engineer - 13023. This position will be located in Roy, Utah, Colorado Springs, CO or Huntsville, AL and will support the Sentinel program.

The successful candidate will support element level software coding & development which includes:

What You’ll Get To Do:

This engineer will support software scrum teams by optimizing and developing pipeline automation to facilitate releases while enforcing versioning, signing, and managing the build promotion process to ensure build artifacts and code compliance. This engineer should have knowledge of microservice architecture and software build/packaging/versioning. This engineer will work to define and implement the build promotion process to support a microservice architecture.

This engineer will work with the scrum masters and Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to understand and facilitate the software release roadmap. This engineer will be an advocate for the release process and communicate the process to the scrum teams to ensure everyone understands the release process. Success will be predicated on successfully integrating into scrum teams during the release cycle to ensure timely and quality execution.

This position can be located in Huntsville, AL, Roy, UT, Colorado Springs, CO

Position Benefits:

As a full-time employee of Northrop Grumman Defense 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  

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.


Basic Qualifications:
Principal Cyber Software Engineer:

  • Bachelor's degree in Science with 5 years of experience; or Master's degree with 3 years of experience; or PhD with 1 year of experience or 4 additional years in lieu of a degree

  • Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within the last 6 years with ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need.

  • 1+ year(s) of experience with build configuration languages (e.g., python, json, yaml)

  • 1+ year(s) of experience CI/CD workflows specifically in release generation and management

  • 1+ year(s) of experience software development 

Sr Principal Cyber Software Engineer:

  • Bachelor's degree in Science with 8 years of experience; or Master's degree with 6 years of experience; or PhD with 4 years of experience or 4 additional years in lieu of a degree

  • Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret Clearance with an investigation date within

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