Senior Principal Software Engineer – Cloud

Northrop Grumman

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman adapting mobile control station software to cloud environment. Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams in an Agile software development environment.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeSan Diego • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $142,200 - $213,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerKubernetesLinux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Help adapt a suite of mobile control station software applications to a cloud environment
Participate in building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure to deploy the solution to an Il-5 cloud environment
Work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Dev*Ops, in an Agile software development environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 8 years of Software Engineering experience, or a Master's degree in STEM with 6 years of Software Engineering experience, or a PhD in STEM with 4 years on Software Engineering experience
Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time , as determined by the Company.
Experience with infrastructure components (VMs, containers, network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and micro-services
Experience with software-defined networking
Experience with a coding or scripting language
Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence)
Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, organizational, and multi-tasking skills
Certified (associate level or above) in a cloud platform or - Azure Platform (>= Azure Administrator Associate) - AWS Platform (>= Solutions Architect Associate)

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-CodecontainerizationDockerKubernetessoftware-defined networkingcoding languagescripting languageAgile methodologiesIT security conceptsmulti-disciplinary collaboration

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillsproblem-solving skillsorganizational skillsmulti-tasking skills

Certifications

cloud platform certificationAzure Administrator AssociateAWS Solutions Architect Associate