Staff Electronics Engineer – Hardware/Infrastructure Lead
United States-California-San Diegolead
EngineeringElectronics Engineer
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Key Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership and direction to a cross-functional team of cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure engineers. Manage the team’s Jira project: lead scrums, define sprint plans,
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EngineeringElectronics Engineer
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: YesCLEARANCE TYPE: Top SecretTRAVEL: Yes, 25% of the Time
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Staff Electronics Engineer – Hardware/Infrastructure Lead, to join our team in Rancho Bernardo, Ca. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct. This position will be in our Avionics Integration Organization.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Provide technical leadership and direction to a cross-functional team of cloud, datacenter, and infrastructure engineers.
- →Manage the team’s Jira project: lead scrums, define sprint plans, track progress, and resolve priority conflicts.
- →Maintain technical breadth across the datacenter and IT stack (compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, and observability).
- →Develop and execute a staffing and content delivery plan per the IFC roadmap.
- →Plan and release content for each IFC based on program milestones and technical dependencies.
- →Coordinate with the Product Owner to groom the backlog, prioritize work, and align deliverables to program milestones and technical risk.
- →Translate customer requirements into hardware, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Environment, Platform and Tenant design and delivery plans.
- →Define and review acceptance criteria with Product Owner and System Engineers to ensure consistent implementation and verification.
- →Participate in design and peer reviews; author technical design artifacts, runbooks, and test plans.
- →Decompose complex technical issues into concise executive briefs for program leadership and decision-making.
- →Provide hands-on mentorship, knowledge transfer, and technical oversight during solution implementation and integration.
- →Ensure configuration management, change control, and traceability for hardware and infrastructure designs and deployments.
- →Perform cost account planning, budgeting and earned value management.
Requirements
~3 min read- Bachelor’s Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience.
- Experience leading a team
- Hands on experience with server, storage, virtualization, and networking technologies in enterprise or defense datacenter environments.
- Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Strong working knowledge of network fundamentals and security best practices for infrastructure.
- Proven ability to translate customer requirements into hardware/infrastructure designs, develop acceptance criteria, and produce technical documentation and runbooks.
- Familiarity with configuration management, change control, and compliance requirements
- Familiarity with earned value management
- A U.S. Citizen with Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance OR active DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (with a background investigation within the past 5 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs
- Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance.
- Certified Cost Account Manager
- Familiar with systems engineering practices
- Demonstrated experience using Agile tools and processes (Jira, sprint planning, backlog grooming, scrum ceremonies).
- Experience with Microsoft Visio and other Office products to express engineering documentation
- Knowledge of Cisco UCS Compute, NetApp ONTAP/StorageGrid, Cisco Nexus Networks, VMware virtualization (ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, NSX-T, Horizon) and Red Hat OpenShift
- Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management.
Location & Eligibility
Where is the job
United States-California-San Diego
On-site at the office
Who can apply
Same as job location
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 17, 2026
- First seen
- October 5, 2026
- Last seen
- October 5, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 4
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 13%
- Scored at
- October 10, 2026
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