Principal Engineer – Software, Cloud & Applications

Northrop Grumman

Engineer or Principal Software Engineer involved in adapting mobile control station applications to cloud environments. Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams on Infrastructure-as-Code and Agile methodologies.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeEl Segundo • California, Florida • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $79,300 - $137,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDockerJavaKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPython

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 Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Dev*Ops, in an Agile software development environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM discipline and 2 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of related engineering experience for Engineer role
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 for Principal Engineer role
Ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Secret clearance
Experience with infrastructure components (VMs, containers, network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices
Experience with software-defined networking
Experience with a coding or scripting language (C, C++, Java, Python)
Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Retirement and Savings Plan
Paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO)
Flexible work arrangements
Learning opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)containerizationDockerKubernetesmicroservicesCC++JavaPythonsoftware-defined networking

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationadaptabilityproblem-solvingteamworkleadershiporganizational skillsinterpersonal skillscritical thinkingtime management

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in STEMMaster’s Degree in STEMU.S. government Secret clearance