Network Engineer 3 (TG)

Relocation assistance is not available. Active current TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance required for start. Travel is required, approximately 10% of the time.

About the Role

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. 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. 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 the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions.

Places of performance for this position are Annapolis Junction, MD; San Antonio, TX; Aurora, CO; and Carey, NC.

Responsibilities

• Perform network services from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks.
• Analyze design, specifications, and related documents.
• Perform general LAN/CAN/WAN administration.
• Schedule conversions and cutovers.
• Coordinate with all responsible users and sites to resolve network or system incidents.
• Translate business requirements into telecommunications (e.g., LAN, CAN, WAN, Voice and Video) requirements, designs, and orders.
• Perform engineering analysis of telecommunications alternatives in support of strategic modernization efforts and telecommunications enhancement design for medium and large-scale telecommunication infrastructures.
• Assist telecommunications end users, telecommunications operations personnel, and telecommunications strategic program management with network interfaces.
• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.
• Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information.
• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools.
• Provide input to the design of the organization's network and mission architecture.
• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test, and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces, and methodologies.
• Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components.
• Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface requirements.
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements including load-balancing, VPNs, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping, Voice over IP (VoIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate.
• Configure and maintain the organization's network diagrams and accreditations.
• Oversee the support to all network equipment.
• Develop designs of the organization's network and mission architecture to meet new partner requirements.
• Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers.
• Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations.
• Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment, and network simulators.
• Design modules representing traditional circuit-switched networks.
• Lead large efforts and installation projects of dynamic requirements and scale.
• Develop algorithms for models using networking and/or telecommunications technologies and systems.

Requirements

• High School diploma with 16 years of experience; Bachelor's degree with 12 years of experience; or a Master's degree with 10 years of experience.
• Active current TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience analyzing user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• CNO (Computer Network Operations) development concepts.

Benefits

Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment that encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company. Benefits include:

• Health Plan
• Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Additional Benefits: Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and more.

Pay

Primary level salary range: $169,000.00 - $265,600.00. 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.