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Principal Cyber Systems Engineer Lead

Job in Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22021, USA
Listing for: Northrop Grumman
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-11-05
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 125000 - 188000 USD Yearly USD 125000.00 188000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
Top Secret TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time Description 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.

Job Description We are looking for an Mid-Level Cybersecurity Professional to join our Cybersecurity Integrated Product team (IPT) who will maintain an enhanced focus on ground segment cloud infrastructure and lead the cybersecurity posture of mission-critical information systems in 100% Agile Development and Operational environment(s) from design through decommissioning. In this role, you will operate as a Cybersecurity Lead for a new mission onboarding into a pre-existing program’s ecosystem;

this role will report to the overall program cybersecurity lead. You will work closely with the integrated product teams to develop and decompose software security requirements, technical architectures, system designs and provide technical oversight to the organization. Finally, you will collaborate with the Platform Deployment team supporting the implementation of secure infrastructure, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and achieving accreditation & sustainment of a private cloud infrastructure.

If you thrive on ownership, strategic thinking, customer engagement, and creative solutioning, this role is for you!

Job Responsibilities:

Working in an Agile engineering environment, where you will lead the design, development, and/or implementation of secure systems. Continuously ensure systems are compliant with program security requirements.

Working with space vehicle vendors to communicate ground security requirements and support the integration of space vehicle hardware into an overall, encompassing operational ground accreditation

Working in an Agile engineering environment, where you may assist in identifying, prioritizing, and/or guiding strategic oversight of software security requirements; to include triage of Static Code Analysis (SCA) tool findings (e.g. Fortify) and assist in prioritizing the findings as technical debt in the Software Development Life Cycle (SwDLC) backlog

Advising software development scrum teams on secure coding practices, cybersecurity practices for containerized/orchestrated environments and CI/CD pipelines, security-focused engineering trade studies, and other security best practices.

Conducting security assessments of mission software applications to include code reviews, vulnerability assessments, application security testing, while contributing to the overall security posture of the system and software architecture

Assist in the development and implementation of security tools and automation processes; to include Static and Dynamic Code Analysis, Software Dependency Scanning, Compliance and Vulnerability Scanning, Auditing & Event Monitoring Solutions Developing standard Risk Management Framework (RMF) artifacts, such as System Security Plan (SSP), Risk Assessment Report (RAR), Security Controls…
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