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# Principal Operations Systems Engineer - Level 3

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Aurora, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $114,000.0 - $171,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Linux, Operational Data Store, Scripting, Operational Systems
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9051189/principal-operations-systems-engineer-level-3

## About the Role

* Approved STEM Bachelor's degree with 5 years of professional experience - OR - Approved STEM Master's degree with 3 years of professional experience - OR - Approved STEM PhD with 1 year of professional experience.

 * Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret security clearance, SCI access, and complete a Counterintelligence Polygraph examination prior to start

 * Ability and willingness to work rotating 12-hour shifts which will be scheduled 5:30am to 5:30pm and 5:30pm to 5:30am 4 days on, 4 days off including weekends and holidays rotating days and nights.
 * Proven leadership experience on a project and/or team.
 * Experience in Linux

 * Ability to work as an effective member of a badgeless team, be self-motivated, and work under general direction while independently determining and developing approaches to solutions

## Description

* Development of products and CONOPs for the 24x7 operation of a mission critical system
 * Troubleshooting of real-world operations issues
 * Trending of operational data and simulation of products and CONOPs prior to transition to operations
 * Returning systems to an operational state, ensuring the health and safety of the systems while maximizing mission availability
 * Review or development of standard operating procedures that are executed real time on the operational system for standard events and anomaly recoveries
 * Developing scripts and products to automate the operations of complex systems
 * Develop suites of operational products for newly delivered systems
 * Ability and willingness to work rotating 12-hour shifts which will be scheduled 5:30am to 5:30pm and 5:30pm to 5:30am 4 days on, 4 days off including weekends and holidays rotating days and nights.
 * Other duties as assigned

This position is contingent upon the candidate obtaining final clearances and program access(es) within a reasonable period of time as determined by the company.


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