Staff Cyber Systems Engineer

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 yours of 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. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a candidate to join our diverse team of engineers, system administrators, and operators as a Staff 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.

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 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 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 - $243,400.00 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.

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