Principal Cyber Systems Engineer-AHT

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
Relocation assistance may be available CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START:
Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE:
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:

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 Defense Systems (NGDS) is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer to join the Cyber Systems Engineering team supporting the development of mission-critical defense systems.

Position Overview:

The Principal Cyber Systems Engineer will provide support for the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) program. The selected candidate will work with the cybersecurity team to continuously ensure systems are compliant with program security requirements.

What You’ll Get to Do:

Perform security assessments on containerized applications; drive remediation efforts.

Collaborate with software, systems, and security engineers to define secure architectures and deployment patterns.

Ensure cyber survivability attributes are implemented in system designs

Support the security architecture and influence the security tools selection and development.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in STEM field with 5 years of cyber systems experience – OR – master’s degree in a STEM field with 3 years of cyber systems experience.

Active Secret security clearance to Start.

Requires an Active DoD 8140/8570 certification (e.g., Security+ CE).Experience managing and manipulating containers (e.g. Podman, Docker, Kubernetes)
Provide technical analyses of cyber infrastructure challenges and problems; develop/identify technical solutions responsive to customer needs

Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance, reliability, and security of the system including installation, upgrading, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration

Collaborate with SW development and cyber teams on implementing and documenting plans for system deployment(s)
Solve complex problems across disciplines in an Agile, Dev Sec Ops  environment

Experience working in a Linux environment (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL) including basic command-line usage, file system navigation, and process management

Exposure to basic shell scripting (e.g., Bash) for automation of routine tasks

Familiarity…