Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Administrator - EX-PAT-Australia

Northrop Grumman•Coulee, ND

12d•Onsite

About The Position

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. Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Systems Administrator to join the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Program to support the customer's Early Use (EU) project objectives. This role can be placed at Principal/Level 3 OR Sr. Principal/Level 4. The EU project for DARC enables USSPACECOM and the USSF to work with mission data while also learning from the system operations to develop CONOPS and Training, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) for the new radar capability. This is achieved by tasking DARC system components on a non-interference basis with ongoing development activities. It is the responsibility of Northrop Grumman personnel to configure, operate, and maintain the DARC system components in line with these objectives. This role working alongside the Northrop Grumman early use operations lead, and EU operators, will configure and operate the DARC computer infrastructure systems commensurate with tasking from USSPACECOM. This position will be based out of Colorado Springs, CO, with a Long-Term, International Assignment to DARC Site 1 within the North West Cape Defense Precinct (NWCDP) in Australia for approximately eight (8) months, with the ability to extend. As the DARC Early Use System Administrator you will get to:

Requirements

Principal/Level 3: Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Computer Information Systems or similar with 5+ years of experience; Master's with 3+ years of experience; OR 9+ years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed degree.
Sr. Principal/Level 4: Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Computer Information Systems or similar with 8+ years of experience; Master's with 6+ years of experience; OR 12+ years of experience may be considered in lieu of a completed degree.
Active DoD Secret Clearance at the time of application.
Experience with configuring and trouble shooting network components and traffic issues.
Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux 8/9 OS.
IAT Level II certification (ex. Security+ CE) or greater.
Experience with Ansible scripts.
Experience with RedHat Identity Manager (IDM).
Experience with RedHat Satellite Server configuration and usage.
Familiarity with HPC cluster management solutions, such as HPE CM.
Effective written and oral communication across all levels of the organization, with internal and external customers.

Nice To Haves

Active DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility.
Experience working within a RADAR or Satellite operations environment.
Experience with various MPI implementations, IntelMPI, OpenMPI, MPICH.
Experience with InfiniBand networks and the InfiniBand protocol.
Experience with Nvidia CUDA libraries and GPUs.
Experience with job schedulers, such as Slurm or PBS.
Experience with global and parallel files systems, such as GPFS.
Experience with Data Diode/CDS security solutions.

Responsibilities

Power up, configure, and shut down DARC computer infrastructure components in support of Early Use Operations.
Document and track Early Use SW and HW configurations.
Ensure Early Use Data is appropriately tagged, archived, and sanitized per documented procedures.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the computer system infrastructure (Hardware and Software) supporting early EU Operations.
Support EU demonstrations and answer questions from witnessing customer representatives.
Support Systems Administration functions in collaboration and communication with Unites States based personnel.