Staff IT Engineer – Top Secret Clearance Required (San Diego)

Company Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Engineering

General Summary Qualcomm's Government Technologies (QGOV) division develops special products based on its wireless terrestrial and satellite communication technologies for the military, federal, local, and foreign governments. In this role, you will be part of a team focused on building and maintaining infrastructure and services with stability, sustainability, and security. You will work in a self-guided, cross-functional team responsible for modernizing traditional services and applications on hybrid infrastructure. The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience at a variety of IT skill levels, from enterprise solution support and associated architecture.

Opening is available in San Diego CA. Your Guiding Principles

• Adaptability: You can quickly change gears when priorities shift. You have the flexibility to come up with alternate solutions due to evolving requirements.
• Automation: You understand the power of automation and concepts like “infrastructure as code”. You recognize opportunities to replace repetitive manual tasks with code.
• Collaboration: You share a common language with fellow engineers, understand their needs, and thrive working in a high trust collaborate culture in which people are rewarded for taking risks.
• Data-driven: You understand why decisions are supported by facts and not opinions. You have experience applying logical approach to decision making. Skilled at metric collection and using that data to drive change.
• Debugging: You understand debugging principles and are adept at applying them routinely and successfully.
• Security: You know how to layer appropriate security within solutions across the lifecycle. You understand the security implications and consequences of any deployment.
• Self-Driven: You understand how to prioritize work and time allocation at a personal and team level.
• Stability: You know what it means to deliver a service with a high degree of reliability and are intimately familiar with how disruptions impact consumers.
• Sustainability: You avoid one off solutions which are challenging to support. Instead, your solutions are aligned with team goals and strategic vision.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

• Must be a U.S. citizen and have an active U.S. Government security clearance.**

Preferred Qualifications Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field

3+ years of experience in one or more of the following:

• Microsoft Azure/M365/Intune/Entra ID administration, preferably in GCC High
• Cloud architecture and design
• Demonstrable cloud-based enterprise solutions
• Identity management
• PowerShell and automation
• IT Operations at a SME-level
• Architecting and implementing enterprise solutions
• Configuration management
• Various enterprise tools such as Active Directory, Exchange, MS-SQL, SharePoint, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.

OR

7+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits $116,800.00 - $175,200.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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