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# Staff Engineer Software - Cloud & Applications

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** El Segundo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $177,000.0 - $265,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Comptia Cloud+, C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), Microsoft Windows, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, Systems Engineering, Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, CompTIA Security+, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, Data Migration, Linux, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Role-Based Access Control, Azure Active Directory, SAP (Applications), Software Engineering, System Testing, Cloud Platform System, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Gitlab, Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, SDN Network, Atlassian Tools, Cloud Migration, Software Version Control, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8967204/staff-engineer-software-cloud-applications

## About the Role

The individual we seek will be self-motivated, proactive, goal-oriented to help us grow our services, become even better at what we do and will possess the following qualifications., * Bachelor's Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline from an accredited university with 12 years of experience; OR Master's Degree in a STEM discipline with 10 years of relevant experience; OR PhD Degree in a STEM discipline with 4 years of relevant experience

 * Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs
 * Experience with infrastructure components (VMs, containers, network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts)
 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices
 * Experience with software-defined networking
 * Experience with a coding or scripting language (C, C++, Java, Python)
 * Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence)

Preferred Qualification:

 * A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering
 * An active Secret or higher clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)
 * Certified (associate level or above) in a cloud platform or
 + Azure Platform
 + AWS Platform
 * CompTIA Security+ certification
 * CompTIA Cloud+ certification
 * Experience with administering cloud-based networking (ACL, Security Groups, WAF)
 * Demonstrated experience in cloud adoption, environment prototyping, and data migration
 * Knowledge of account management solutions (RBAC, AWS IAM, Azure AD)
 * Expertise leveraging git for code management (ArgoCD, Flux, Gitlab)
 * Experience leading teams of technical individuals

## Description

In this role you will help adapt a suite of mobile control station software applications to a cloud environment, participating in building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure to deploy the solution to an Il-5 cloud environment including containerization, instrumentation, integration, security, and system test. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams, such as with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud & Application, Dev*Ops, in an Agile software development environment.


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