This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Staff Electronics Engineer – Field Operations to join our team in Chantilly, VA. This position will be in our Avionics Integration Organization.

The selected candidate will be responsible for integrating and testing software/hardware systems in complex IT systems and will be working independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment working closely with customers and key stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design and maintain an on-premise multi-tenant data center environment.
• Act as point of contract (POC) for the customer on all technical related issues, including Tier 1-3 support.
• Develop engineering documentation for system configuration
• Execute engineering projects on schedule.
• Generate and redline documented procedures and troubleshoot.
• Demonstrate good coordination, planning, and documentation skills.
• Implement engineering changes to the system as required

The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations and significantly diverse assignments with the ability to work independently.

This role will be required to work full-time, independently on-site at customer facility.  There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position and it will require the ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline with 7 years of related engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience in IT disciplines, some of which should be in a lead role
• Demonstrated experience with software virtualization products
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning/roadmap development and execution for operational systems
• Ability to obtain and maintain CompTIA Security+ Certificate. This certificate must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Demonstrated experience with modern virtualization software and releases (Azure, VMware or similar).
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Top Secret/SCI clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Special Program Access
• Active CompTIA Security+ Certification
• Demonstrated expertise with mission support systems.
• Demonstrated experience in IT process improvement through software automation process.
• Demonstrated experience with on-premise data centers, cloud services, and edge computing.
• Experience administrating of vSphere and vCF; experience with ESXi, vCenter, NSX and VDI
• Experience trouble shooting of VMware products in a production environment
• Experience administrating Container Technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker) in an production environment
• Operating System Certification (Linux+, VMware Certified, etc.)
• Aria Automation (vRA) and Aria Operations (vRO) experience
• Scripting experience with vRO (PowerShell, Python, JavaScript).
• Experience administrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (or equivalent) or above.
• Experience administrating of NetApp Storage system On Tap and Storage grid.
• In-depth experience in Operations and Maintenance activities of IT infrastructure
• Experience configuring/maintaining Networking Hardware (Switch, Router)
• 5 or more years of experience with modern virtualization software and releases (Azure, VMware or similar).
• 5 or more years of experience as a technical lead