Staff Cyber Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman • Chantilly, VA

2d • $194,700 - $243,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Staff Cyber Systems Engineer professional in Chantilly, VA. The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and providing Tier-2 and Tier-3 support for a mission-critical network infrastructure. This role involves collecting data for analysis, performing network upgrades, and producing documentation and diagrams of the work performed. The position offers unique, challenging, and rewarding work that makes a difference. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, quick-response environment with high expectations and diverse assignments. They must possess strong communication and collaboration skills, working effectively with multiple teams across all technical levels, and be able to lead the development of creative solutions to complex problems.

Requirements

• Must be a US citizen with an Active TS/SCI with current Poly to be considered.
• 12 Years with Bachelor’s Degree; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Year with PhD; 16 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• IAT-2 Certification (eg; COMPTIA Security+)
• 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

Benefits

• Relocation assistance may be available
• health insurance coverage
• life and disability insurance
• savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• overtime
• shift differential
• discretionary bonus
• Annual bonuses
• Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior