Staff Electronics Engineer — Hardware/Infra Lead (On-Site)

Northrop Grumman

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 177,000 - 265,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus
Long Term Incentives
Health insurance
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Rancho Bernardo, CA seeks a Staff Electronics Engineer – Hardware/Infrastructure Lead to provide technical leadership for cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure teams. Role requires coordinating with Product Owner, managing Jira, and delivering IT solutions aligned with IFC roadmaps.

The position emphasizes hands-on oversight, design artifacts, and runbooks, with on-site work and a Top Secret clearance requirement.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in STEM with 12+ years of related engineering experience.
  • Experience leading a team in enterprise datacenter or defense environments.
  • Hands-on with server, storage, virtualization, and networking technologies.
  • Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid cloud.
  • Knowledge of earned value management and program management practices.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership to a cross-functional cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure team.
  • Manage Jira projects, lead scrums, sprint plans, and backlogs.
  • Maintain breadth across the IT stack: compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and observability.
  • Coordinate with Product Owner to groom the backlog, prioritize work, and align deliverables to milestones.
  • Develop design artifacts, runbooks, and test plans; mentor staff.

Skills

Technical leadership
Jira
Cloud platforms
Datacenter
Networking
Virtualization
OpenShift

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM
Master's Degree in STEM (preferred)
PhD in STEM (preferred)

Tools

Jira
Microsoft Visio
Cisco UCS Compute
NetApp ONTAP/StorageGrid
Cisco Nexus networks
VMware vSphere NSX-T
Red Hat OpenShift

Job description

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems in Rancho Bernardo, CA seeks a Staff Electronics Engineer – Hardware/Infrastructure Lead to provide technical leadership for cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure teams. Role requires coordinating with Product Owner, managing Jira, and delivering IT solutions aligned with IFC roadmaps.

The position emphasizes hands-on oversight, design artifacts, and runbooks, with on-site work and a Top Secret clearance requirement.

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