Sr Principal Systems Administrator – Integration​/CDS Engineer

Relocation Assistance:
No relocation assistance available

Travel:
Yes, 10% of the Time

Clearance Type:
Top Secret

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.

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2

BMC) program is a crucial part of the Missile Defense System. It provides an essential operational platform that allows the U.S. president, the secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and tactical levels to systematically plan missile defense operations, track battle progress, and actively control networked sensors and weapon systems to meet global and regional mission objectives. C2

BMC offers a layered missile defense capability, delivering an optimized response to threats across all ranges and flight phases. It functions as a force multiplier by linking, integrating, and synchronizing autonomous sensor and weapon systems and operations worldwide and locally to enhance overall performance. Additionally, C2

BMC plays a vital role in all ground and flight tests that verify and demonstrate the missile defense system’s current and future capabilities. The selected candidate will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth implementation, configuration, and maintenance of CDS. They might also need to travel to remote locations to perform CDS installations, upgrades, and troubleshooting in accordance with Program configuration management processes.

• Responsible for developing, controlling configuration, deploying, and testing Radiant Mercury Configuration (including Rules), with a primary focus on Common Data Services (CDS) integration
• Assist with integrating JEMINI Lab test suites into our development lab
• Supporting software development team members in troubleshooting and resolving issues
• Develop configurations to support testing and prototyping of developing systems
• Creating and modifying scripts to perform data analysis of input, internal, and output message data
• Troubleshooting issues in both tests and prototypes
• Create troubleshooting procedures and workaround documents
• Review and give feedback on system specs, development, testing, and network documents as needed
• Represent the Integration team
• Automating scripts to configure and maintain remote hosts
• Must be an effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills, capable of using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools
• Must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated integration engineers, as well as independently at times on large field projects

Please list your current security clearance and IAT or relevant certifications on your resume, if applicable.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited university is preferred, 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 hold a current, active in-scope DoD-issued Top Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
• Applicants must hold a current, active DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level II or higher (such as Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP,…