Staff Cyber Systems Engineer

Relocation assistance may be available. Active TS/SCI with current Polygraph clearance required for start. Travel: 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. Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.

We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a Staff Cyber Systems Engineer to join our diverse team in Chantilly, VA. The successful candidate will monitor, maintain, and provide Tier-2 and Tier-3 support of a mission-critical network infrastructure, collect data for analysis, perform network upgrades, and produce documentation and diagrams. The work is unique, challenging, and rewarding—work that makes a difference.

The successful candidate should thrive in a fast-paced, quick-response work environment with high expectations, diverse assignments, and possess the ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple teams across all technical levels. The candidate must be able to lead the way in maintaining and developing creative solutions to complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering and administrative support onsite for a team of developers and testers, often deviating from industry-standard procedures to meet mission needs while maintaining system security standards.
• Design, build, and maintain AWS and hybrid-cloud systems as part of a team.
• Administer systems based on Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Maintain and troubleshoot IP networking systems for AWS and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Automate system deployment, operation, and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen with an Active TS/SCI clearance and current Polygraph.
• 12 years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree; 10 years with a Master’s; 8 years with a PhD; or 16 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• IAT-2 Certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+).
• Experience with designing, deploying, and administering cloud-based solutions.
• Experience with architecture, maintenance, and administration of Linux and Windows operating systems within large enterprise environments.
• Experience with automating tasks (e.g., Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet, or Python).
• Proven experience working within IT systems design, deployment, and administration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud service certification (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, or similar).
• Experience with one or more programming languages.
• Extensive experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting IPv4 networking, including subnetting, OSPF routing, VLANs, and VPNs.
• Recent roles in technical or team leadership positions.
• Knowledge of cloud database management (e.g., MySQL RDS and PostgreSQL).
• Knowledge of cybersecurity in the context of the cloud.
• Comfortable working in an Agile development environment.
• Experience managing and manipulating containers (e.g., Podman, Docker, Kubernetes).

Pay

Primary level salary range: $194,700.00 – $243,400.00. The above salary range represents a general guideline; Northrop Grumman considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s experience, education, skills, and current market conditions when determining base salary offers.

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.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.