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 Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our organization is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.

We are looking for you to join our team as a Network Engineer based out of San Diego, CA. As Network Engineer at Northrop Grumman, you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, Dev Sec Ops and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.

Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

What You’ll get to Do:

Roles and Responsibilities:

Perform as a consultant in highly specialized, leading edge information technologies and methodologies

Perform hardware and software installation, configuration, and maintenance

Comply with cyber requirements, which may include routine system checks for antivirus, logging, and network system services

Recommend and implement approved system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management

Solve complex problems across disciplines in an Agile, Networking, and Software environment

Opportunity to travel for system installations, test support, and customer demos

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications for Network Engineer:

Bachelors degree in science, engineering, or related discipline with 2 years of experience, or 0 years of experience with a Masters degree

An additional 4 years of relevant experience can be considered in lieu of Bachelors degree

Experience configuring and operating OSPF in multi-area deployments and explain inter-area route propagation;
Working knowledge of IS-IS including NET addressing, level selection, general configuration;
Foundational knowledge of when and why to use iGP instead of eGP

Working BGP knowledge including iBGP and eBGP, route policy, and multi-site interconnect

Ability to operate fluently in both Cisco IOS and Junos CLI under time-bound conditions

Ability to build and operate multi-vendor topologies in GNS3 and EVE-NG for change validation and training

Experience administering RHEL-family Linux systems including Linux networking, and other administrative functions

Experience capturing and analyzing packets on routers, switches and hosts to validate L2 and L3 behavior

Must be a US Citizen

Clearance:
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government Secret clearance is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

Ability to articulate end-to-end packet flow across L2 and L3 boundaries including filter and ARP behavior

Working to continuously expand multi-vendor expertise beyond current platform comfort zone.

This position is contingent upon clearance, customer approval, and funding.

Primary Level Salary Range: $ - $

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability…