Sr Principal Systems Administrator – X-Lab Cloud Tech Admin (26-244)

Northrop Grumman•Colorado Springs, CO

10d•$117,500 - $176,300•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—Missile Defense Integration offers an excellent opportunity for a Sr Principal Systems Administrator – X-Lab Cloud Tech Admin (26-244) to join our team of skilled and diverse professionals. Based at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, this role is essential to supporting the U.S. President, the Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders at the strategic, regional, and operational levels. This position does not provide relocation assistance and requires on-site work with no remote options. Position Overview: The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is a key component of the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, the Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to plan ballistic missile defense operations systematically, collectively monitor the battle, and dynamically control networked sensors and weapon systems to achieve global and regional mission goals. C2BMC supports layered missile defense capabilities that enable an optimized response to threats across all ranges and flight phases. It serves as a force multiplier by networking, integrating, and synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations, both globally and regionally, to improve performance. C2BMC is essential for all ground and flight tests that verify and demonstrate the current and future capabilities of missile defense systems. The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications Experimentation Laboratory (C2BMC X-Lab) operates in a highly fast-paced and dynamic setting. It is tasked with creating and integrating prototypes of future technologies for the Missile Defense System, such as Sensor/Weapon Integration, Algorithm Development, User Interface Design, and other advanced missile defense technologies.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline from an accredited university, along with 8 years of experience; or a Master’s degree in a related field with 6 years of relevant work experience; or 12 years of relevant work experience may be considered as an alternative to a degree
Applicants must have a current, active DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level II or higher (such as Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, CySA+, CND, etc.) at the time of application, which is required to start. The candidate is responsible for maintaining their DoD 8140 certification throughout the entire contract period
Applicants must have a current, active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
Willingness to travel 10% of the time for business needs
Thorough understanding and experience with the Nutanix Prism/AHV on-premises cloud platform
Experience with on-premises multi-tenant environment using role-based administrative controls (RBAC) for least privilege
Experience maximizing infrastructure uptime while maintaining a compliant and patched hypervisor platform
Some experience administering an Active Directory environment
Experience with virtualization technologies in an enterprise-level system, such as VMware, Red Hat OpenStack, or Nutanix
Capacity tracking for virtual resource usage to properly plan for future expansion in a multi-tenant environment
Experience with automation platforms, such as Nutanix Calm, VMware vRealize Automation, and others
Comfortable with using network and system health tracking solutions, such as SolarWinds, for monitoring system health for both virtual infrastructure and hardware

Nice To Haves

Examples of these solutions include products such as VMware Horizon View and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Responsibilities

Will be responsible for deploying and maintaining a large virtualization solution spanning multiple remote sites
Maintain hypervisor software patch and version levels to stay current with vendor-recommended versions to support current production requirements
Troubleshoot all virtualization and cloud solutions, working with hardware engineers to ensure all physical servers are in a nominal state and firmware is up to date
Monitor the health of all virtualization/cloud services to ensure maximum uptime in the enterprise
Monitor and alert on virtualization capacity management for compute/storage load calculations, tracking virtual resource availability for enterprise expansion
Collaboration with other teams, such as IDAM engineering, to configure new services for user access to virtual assets using cloud-specific technologies
Deployment and maintenance of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technologies that provide access to enterprise services for the user base, either local or remote
Serve as the primary administrator responsible for deploying, maintaining, and decommissioning Kubernetes containerized architecture
Candidate must be a detail-oriented individual who can track the impact of events and actions on the underlying infrastructure being managed, such as patching and maintenance