US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

**Description**

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our worlds biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems in air and space that impact peoples lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our work preserves freedom and democracy, and advances human discovery and our understanding of the universe. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future and have a lot of 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, theyre making history.

Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems has an opening for a Storage Engineer with a focus on engineering and integration of NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) and Storage Grid (SG) with the datacenter IT infrastructure system.

The selected candidate will assist with Storage design, documentation, drawings, deployment, and Storage Engineering roles and will need knowledge of the IT systems.

Essential Functions:

- Configure, integrate, and maintain storage array and backup solutions

- Understand storage array and file system concepts like RAID, SAN, NFS, block storage, LUNs

- Integrate with the larger datacenter team to develop necessary storage designs

- Integrate and test software and/or hardware systems in complex IT systems

- Work closely with Engineers and Technicians in a lab environment, providing technical support and troubleshooting

- Author and maintain technical installation, configuration, and update procedures

- Provide engineering technical support for peer teams

- Familiarity with VMware and high-availability virtualized infrastructures

- Ability to maintain COTS Hardware and Software configuration matrix

- Up to 25% travel

The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, collaborative/team settings across all levels

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualification

This requisition is a duel level and may be filled at either a Electrionicsl level or level Principal level.

**Basic Qualifications for level Electronics Engineer:**

+ Bachelors Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 2 years STEM related engineering experience. Or 0 Years with Masters.
+ Familiarity with Storage concepts such as block storage and file systems, RAID, SAN, NAS, and/or backup solutions
+ Experience engineering and testing technical solutions and/or bug fixes in lab environments
+ Experience writing and maintaining technical installation, configuration, and/or update procedures
+ Experience providing engineering technical support
+ Active DoD Secret Clearance
+ Contingent on ability to gain PAR

**Basic Qualifications for level Principal Electronics Engineer:**

+ Bachelors Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years STEM related engineering experience. Or 3 Years with Masters; 0 Years with PhD.
+ Experience with Storage concepts such as block storage and file systems, RAID, SAN, and/or backup solutions
+ Experience engineering and testing technical solutions and/or bug fixes in lab environments
+ Experience writing and maintaining technical installation, configuration, and/or update procedures
+ Experience providing engineering technical support
+ Experience in storage array design, procurement, configuration, and deployments
+ Experience designing long term storage solutions and backup solutions
+ Active DoD Secret Clearance
+ Contingent on ability to gain PAR

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Active DoD Top Secret Clearance
+ Familiarity with Agile tools and processes
+ Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management
+ Familiarity with Python, Jinja, reST, YAML
+ Experience designing data center storage arrays and backup solutions using NetApp and Commvault

Salary Range: $82,400.00 - $123,600.00Salary Range 2: $101,400.00 - $152,200.00

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

**The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority** . The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/ .

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.