Senior Principal Software Engineer - Virtualization Lab

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 98,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life/disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Principal / Senior Principal Software Engineer (Virtualization) to design, develop, and deploy advanced software for lab virtualization of flight control and mission systems, onsite in Melbourne.

Responsibilities include building virtual lab topology, automation scripts, device emulation, CI/CD, documentation, and collaboration with domain experts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in STEM with 5+ years of experience, or MS with 3+ years, or PhD with 1+ year.
• Active US Government Secret (or higher) clearance or higher with ability to obtain SAP clearance.
• Willingness and ability to obtain RHCSA certification.
• Experience using Git or similar version control systems.
• Experience with Windows and Linux environments (RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu).

Responsibilities

• Develop virtual lab topology (compute, storage, networking) using standard hypervisors and container orchestration.
• Create IaC automation for provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of lab resources.
• Build or integrate device emulation layers exposing virtual instruments to end users via standard protocols.
• Implement audit logging to meet security and compliance requirements.
• Create CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery of lab images, updates, and patches.
• Produce comprehensive documentation and train lab administrators.
• Collaborate with domain experts to translate experimental procedures into reproducible virtual workflows.

Skills

Virtualization

IaC

Git

Windows/Linux

RHCSA (willingness)

Security/compliance

CI/CD

Hypervisors

Education

Bachelor in STEM

Master in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

VMware ESXi

KVM

RHCSA

Git

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Principal / Senior Principal Software Engineer (Virtualization) to design, develop, and deploy advanced software for lab virtualization of flight control and mission systems, onsite in Melbourne.

Responsibilities include building virtual lab topology, automation scripts, device emulation, CI/CD, documentation, and collaboration with domain experts.