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

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.

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 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.

• 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.

• 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 with Linux user and permission management (users, groups, file permissions)

• Experience enforcing container security standards and remediate vulnerabilities in container images.
• E…