Our Defense Systems is seeking a Principal Multimedia Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Washington, DC. The qualified applicant will become part of Northrop Grumman's US Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Administration, and Information Technology Services Division of the Executive Office (A/EX/ITS’s) team. This is a contract to provide the US Department of State with highly-skilled and qualified personnel to provide high quality, “state of the art” application development activities to be performed in support of A/EX/ITS systems and applications, leveraging an integrated and scalable framework to meet ITS’s vision and requirements, leveraging Agile/SCRUM or a hybrid development methodology supported by a DevOps framework. Roles and Responsibilities may include:Experience in video and multi-cast broadcast industry.Supports infrastructure using technology, and engineering best practices.Provide interface support to end-users, operations personnel, and strategic program management.Responsible for planning and operations of the BNET system and maintaining BNET’s three 24x7 global multicast streams.Maintains the video-on-demand library, operates the master control equipment, and coordinates with internal DOS to obtain content.Designs and develops multimedia applications, systems and products involving computer graphics and interactive computing such as computer-based systems for personal computers or CD-ROM applications.Incorporates software applications in multiple technology media systems, such as graphics, animation, text, and sound.