Please note that this opportunity is contingent on program funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.
Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Software Engineer/Principal Software Engineer – Java Developer to join our team on site in San Diego, CA. The candidate should be a self-starter with familiarity working in an Integrated Product Team construct.
Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Develop, integrate, test and maintain desktop and web applications and backend services as part of an Integration Functional Capability (IFC)
• Collaborate and work in an engineering environment with other teams such as other SW teams, HW team and System Test team.
• Identify technical risks/opportunities and proactively develop mitigation plans.
• Communicate the progress and accomplishments of the team to senior leadership.
• Create and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the software development life cycle.
• Work in a process-oriented software development environment across the software lifecycle
• Strong desire to learn new things and adapt where required
The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 25% may be required.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
• Experience in developing Java microservices, web services and/or desktop applications:
• Experience with XML/XSLT/XSD and XML technologies such as JAXB and XPath:
• Experience with Maven:
• Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaborating tools such as Confluence and Jira:
• Familiarity with Agile development approach (sprint planning, retrospective and scrum):
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated U.S. government Top Secret clearance (must be in-scope or enrolled in Continuous Evaluation) and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Company.:
Preferred Qualifications:
• Current applicable Special Access Program (SAP) clearance:
• Experience working with one or more of these databases: Postgres, CloudNativePG, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Redis:
• Experience interfacing with a messaging service such as JMS, ActiveMQ or Kafka:
Experience developing containerized software:
• Experience with automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell or Python.:
• Experience creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Maven, Bamboo, GitLab, Bitbucket.:
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