Principal Electronics Engineer OR Senior Principal Electronics Engineer - Mission Systems Onsite Integration Lead

About the position

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 is looking to add a Principal Electronics Engineer OR Senior Principal Electronics Engineer - Mission Systems Onsite Integration Lead to our team of qualified and diverse individuals at Edwards AFB, CA. This position will be in our Avionics Integration Organization. This candidate will be responsible for overseeing the onsite integration of buildup, configuration, testing, and delivery of large data centers using commercially available IT equipment. These deliveries will consist of new data center deployments and upgrades to existing data centers.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate travel and visit requests for integration team
• Perform morning stand up with onsite integration team
• Manage onsite conflict/issue resolution
• Report end-of-day status to Lead RE and Execution Lead
• Coordinate all required materials (hardware, cables, and media)
• Provide detailed ATP execution plan to Execution Lead
• Manage system checkout, acceptance testing, and end-to-end testing
• Verify all aspects of the hardware integration have been completed and liens have been reviewed and accepted by end users and Execution Lead
• Verify all aspects of the IFC TCTO have been completed and lines have been reviewed and accepted by end users and Execution Lead

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 5 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline with 0 years of related engineering experience for Principal level
• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline with 3 years of related engineering experience for Senior level
• Active in-Scope, DoD Top Secret clearance
• Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR)

Nice-to-haves

• Current Special Program Access
• Active CompTIA Security+ Certification
• Mission Planning experience
• Previous experience with existing system
• Familiarity with storage systems and basic networking
• Familiarity with Solaris 10 and 11, Oracle OEM
• Familiarity Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Active Directory
• Familiarity VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, and high-availability virtualized infrastructures
• Experience with Engineering Drawings
• Experience with IT/documentation tools such as Sphinx, Jinja, YAML, reST
• Experience with Agile processes
• Cost Account Management experience
• Experience using MS Project
• Experience with datacenter design and/or hardware/software field installations

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business