Sr. Systems Engineer / Cloud Administrator

Northrop Grumman•,

161d•$156,400 - $234,600•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a candidate to join our diverse team of engineers, system administrators, and operators as a Sr. Principal Cyber Systems Engineer professional in Chantilly, VA. The successful candidate will be expected to monitor, maintain, and provide Tier-2 and Tier-3 support of a mission critical network infrastructure, collect data for analysis, perform network upgrades, and be able to produce documentation and diagrams of the work they perform. The work is unique, challenging and rewarding. Most of all, its work that makes a difference. The successful candidate should thrive in a fast-paced, quick response, work environment with high expectations, diverse assignments, and possess the ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple teams across all technical levels. The candidate must be able to lead the way to maintain and develop creative solutions to complex problems.

Requirements

Must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered.
Bachelors degree with 8 Years of experience; Masters degree with 6 Years of experience; PhD with 4 Years of experience or 12 years of experience with High School diploma.
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

Nice To Haves

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)

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