Staff Cloud Architect & Systems Engineer (On-Site)

Northrop Grumman; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 153,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corp. in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to serve as a Cloud Architect within the System Infrastructure Team. The role requires full-time, on-site work with travel up to 10% and a Secret clearance.

The ideal candidate designs and manages cloud infrastructure, coordinates decisions with hardware and test teams, and drives CI/CD pipelines and automation across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of science degree in a STEM discipline with 12+ years of experience, or Master’s in STEM with 10+ years, or PhD in STEM with 8+ years.
• Active U.S. Government Secret Clearance or higher (with BI within 6 years or Continuous Evaluation)
• Experience with Cloud Computing and Hybrid On-Prem Solutions; Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes; setting up small to medium Kubernetes clusters and service mesh technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure aligned with program requirements.
• Coordinate architecture decisions with hardware and test teams; manage development backlog for cloud software development.
• Deploy product updates, set up software factory, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling.
• Lead on-site, full-time cloud engineering efforts with no remote work available.

Skills

Cloud Computing

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Service Mesh

Job description

Northrop Grumman Corp. in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Staff Systems Engineer to serve as a Cloud Architect within the System Infrastructure Team. The role requires full-time, on-site work with travel up to 10% and a Secret clearance.

The ideal candidate designs and manages cloud infrastructure, coordinates decisions with hardware and test teams, and drives CI/CD pipelines and automation across projects.