Cyber Systems Engineer - level 5

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.

Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector is seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer
-Level 5 to join our team in Colorado Springs, CO.
This position will be based at our Colorado Springs airport facility. In this position, you will:

Architect, Deploy, and Maintain Elastic Stack Lead the design, deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of Elastic Stack components, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Elastic Agent/Fleet/Defend in a primarily Linux-based environment.

Design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure Elastic Stack architectures across distributed and clustered environments.

Own version upgrades, patching, backup/restore strategies, and capacity planning for Elastic clusters.

Automation and Infrastructure-as-Code Develop automation for Elastic Stack deployments and configuration management using scripting and/or infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Bash, Python, Power Shell, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent).Create reusable playbooks/scripts for provisioning new environments, onboarding new data sources, and performing configuration changes lement CI/CD-oriented approaches for safely deploying Elastic configuration, ingest pipelines, and detection logic.

Log Ingestion, Pipelines, and Best Practices Define and enforce logging best practices for Linux, Windows, network, and security devices to ensure high-fidelity, actionable telemetry.

Design, implement, and optimize Logstash pipelines and/or Elasticsearch ingest pipelines to onboard logs from diverse sources, including:

System logs (e.g., syslog)
Application logs Network and security device logs Metrics and SNMP traps from infrastructure and security tools

Normalize, enrich, and parse data (including use of regular expressions, grok, dissect, and ECS mapping) to support threat detection, hunting, and reporting use cases.

Metrics, Telemetry, and SNMP-Trap Integration Integrate system and application metrics and SNMP traps into Elastic via Logstash and/or ingest pipelines.

Develop and maintain pipelines to transform metrics and SNMP events into structured documents suitable for dashboards, alerting, and long-term analysis.

Tune ingestion and storage strategies for performance, cost-efficiency, and retention requirements.

Dashboards, Analytics, and Detection Engineering Develop and implement Complex Elastic queries to extract, analyze, and visualize security data from diverse sources.

Use Elastic search languages (KQL, ES|QL, Lucene, JQL, etc.) to support threat hunting, incident analysis, and operational monitoring.

Build and maintain Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and reports tailored to SOC analysts, incident responders, engineering teams, leadership, and auditors.

Leverage Elastic Defend to create and tune security use cases, correlation rules, and alerts to detect suspicious or malicious activity.

Operations, Incident Support, and Collaboration Monitor the health and performance of the Elastic environment; troubleshoot issues related to…