RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available
CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes
CLEARANCE TYPE: Polygraph
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have 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, they're making history.
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 world’s 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 the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support you with expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.
We are looking for you to join our team as a Staff Cyber Systems Engineer to join our cross functional Northern Virginia Engineering Discipline Team!
This position will be located at a Mission Systems Sector site in Northern Virginia.
Responsibilities:
- Provide Engineering and Administrative support onsite for a team of developers and testers, often deviating from industry standard procedures to meet mission needs but maintaining system security standards.
- Working as part of a team to design, build and maintain AWS and hybrid-cloud systems
- Administering systems based on Linux and Windows operating systems
- Maintaining and troubleshooting IP networking systems for AWS and hybrid-cloud systems
- Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
Staff Cyber Systems Engineer Basic Qualifications:
- Must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered.
- 12 Years with Bachelor’s Degree; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD; 16 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with designing, deploying, and administering cloud-based solutions
- Experience of architecture, maintenance, and administration of Linux and Windows Operating Systems within large enterprise environments
- Experience with automating tasks (e.g.; Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python)
- Proven experience working within IT Systems Design, Deployment and Administration
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cloud service certification (e.g.; AWS, Azure, Google, or similar)
- Experience with one or more programming languages
- Extensive experience of designing, deploying, and troubleshooting IPv4 Networking, including Subnetting, OSPF Routing, VLANs and VPNs;
- Recent roles in Technical or Team Leadership positions
- Knowledge of cloud database management (e.g.; MySQL RDS and PostgreSQL)
- Knowledge of cybersecurity in the context of the cloud
- Comfortable working in an Agile Development environment.
- Experience managing and manipulating containers (e.g.; PODMAN, DOCKER, KUBERNETES)
Primary Level Salary Range: $194,700.00 - $292,100.00
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity 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 and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.
