Principal/Sr Principal Infrastructure Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman1 day ago
Huntsville, AL, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$109k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement containerization and virtualization strategies for migrating a complex mission-critical application.
- Decompose the application into containerized services or components and define images, runtimes, and resource allocations.
- Develop and maintain Dockerfiles, Helm charts, virtual machine images, and other repeatable and secure build artifacts.
- Administer Kubernetes/OpenShift and VMware or similar container orchestration and virtualization platforms.
- Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, resource usage, and networking in containerized and virtualized environments.
- Integrate components into CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, deployment, and rollback.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, image scanning, access controls, patching, and configuration hardening.
- Collaborate with software developers, system administrators, cybersecurity, and operations teams on migration activities.
- Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and configuration records.
Requirements
- Principal level requires a STEM bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant experience, or 3 years with a master's degree or 1 year with a PhD.
- Senior Principal level requires a STEM bachelor's degree and 8 years of relevant experience, or 6 years with a master's degree or 4 years with a PhD.
- Active Secret clearance and CompTIA Security+ certification are required.
- Object-oriented software development experience in Java and C++ is required.
- Experience with Git or GitLab, Docker or Podman, Kubernetes or similar platforms, container images, container registries, virtualization platforms, Linux administration, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, monitoring, logging, and CI/CD is required.
- Preferred qualifications include SAFe and Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence, classified CI/CD experience, CI/CD test-bench and benchmarking pipelines, RTI/DDS middleware, and tactical data-link or external-interface experience such as MIL-STD-6016, Link 16, Blue Force Tracker, IBS, or ADS-B.
Benefits
- Primary base salary range is $108,800.00-$163,200.00 and secondary-level base salary range is $135,800.00-$203,600.00.
- Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off; overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses may also be available.
- The role requires Secret clearance at start, involves 10% travel, and provides no relocation assistance.
- U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring government clearance.
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About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).