Cyber Protection Principal/Sr. Principal Engineer-AHT
Description
Northrop Grumman is seeking a Cyber Protection Principal Engineer to maintain and enhance capabilities in support of DAF CLOUDworks at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in Rome, NY, Warner Robins, GA, or Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. DAF CLOUDworks is a rapidly growing secure cloud program that encompasses 10+ teams. These teams span all different areas of cloud engineering including information security, infrastructure development, and cloud migration. You will be an active part of one of these teams providing technical support of customers leveraging DAF CLOUDworks. Along with operations and sustainment, DAF CLOUDworks focuses on modifying and enhancing offerings to implement new requirements, enhance functionality, increase efficiency, or lower operating/deployment.
Basic Qualifications
- Level 3: Bachelor’s degree in Science with 5+ years of software development experience; Master's with 3+ years of relative experience; or an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Level 4: Bachelor’s degree in Science with 8+ years of software development experience; Master's with 6+ years of relative experience; or an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior DoD or IC classified environment experience and familiarity with adversary simulation platforms such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, or Havoc are a strong plus.
- Hands-on practitioner who has operated tools at depth across real engagements, documented findings under active assessment constraints, and can communicate risk clearly to both technical teams and senior leadership.
- Experience developing and executing cyber tabletop exercises including threat scenario design, threat actor emulation planning, and after-action reporting is highly valued.
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, and PowerShell are expected, and a working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK as applied to cloud and hybrid environments.
Day-to-day Work
- Jira and Confluence for sprint and documentation workflows.
- GitHub for version controlled tooling and collaborative code review.
Primary Level Salary Range
$98,400.00 - $155,400.00
Secondary Level Salary Range
$122,800.00 - $193,900.00