Staff Electronics Engineer – Infrastructure Architect

Northrop Grumman

Staff Electronics Engineer overseeing Infrastructure Architect responsibilities at Northrop Grumman. Develops systems and technologies impacting national defense and aerospace innovations.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeSan Diego • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $177,000 - $265,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAzureCloudJavaPuppetPythonTerraformVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Understand and decompose customer requirements to support Infrastructure as a Service development and delivery across multiple business areas and baselines
Monitor external technology development and maturation both in industry and within the company, applying new technologies and principles across programs to build a consistent technical vision for data center systems
Participate in development and peer reviews
Work with Thread Leads as well as system Responsible Engineers to develop acceptance criteria for engineering design and implementation, ensuring consistency of implementation across multiple business areas and baselines
Lead new design and capture efforts across the enterprise to build the foundation for future systems and incorporate opportunities into existing programs
Decompose complex issues into high-level executive briefs for program leadership
Provide technical leadership to a team of cloud and infrastructure engineers
Provide technical leadership, direction, and knowledge transfer to other team members during the implementation of technical solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant STEM discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a relevant STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a relevant STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience.
Experience developing and deploying highly scalable datacenter systems to support IaaS models
Experience designing and developing on-premises and hybrid datacenter systems utilizing technologies such as VMware ESXi/VCF and Microsoft Azure
Experience in scripting/programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, Visual Basic, .Net, Java, C, and C#
Experience designing and developing multi-tier storage solutions
Infrastructure automation experience with tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, etc.
Experience with automated documentation tool(s) such as Sphinx or MkDocs
Experience with or ability to author and maintain technical installation, configuration, and update documentation
Experience with or ability to create end-to-end infrastructure blueprints/roadmaps that meet scalability, reliability, security, and program SOW
Active DoD Top Secret clearance (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure as a Servicedatacenter systemsscriptingprogramming languagesVMware ESXiMicrosoft Azuremulti-tier storage solutionsinfrastructure automationtechnical documentationinfrastructure blueprints

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcommunicationproblem decompositioncollaborationknowledge transferdesign leadershippeer review participationacceptance criteria developmentexecutive briefingdirection providing

Certifications

Bachelor’s DegreeMaster’s DegreePhDDoD Top Secret clearanceSpecial Program Access