Sr. Systems Engineer / Cloud Administrator

Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a candidate to join our diverse team of engineers, system administrators, and operators as a Sr. Principal Cyber Systems Engineer professional in Chantilly, VA. The successful candidate will be expected to monitor, maintain, and provide Tier-2 and Tier-3 support of a mission critical network infrastructure, collect data for analysis, perform network upgrades, and be able to produce documentation and diagrams of the work they perform. The work is unique, challenging and rewarding. Most of all, its 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 to maintain and develop 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 but maintaining system security standards.
• Working as part of a team to design, build and maintain AWS and hybrid-cloud systems
• Administering systems based on Linux and Windows operating systems
• Maintaining and troubleshooting IP networking systems for AWS and hybrid-cloud systems
• Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling

Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer Basic Qualifications:

• Must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered.
• Bachelors degree with 8 Years of experience; Masters degree with 6 Years of experience; PhD with 4 Years of experience or 12 years of experience with High School diploma.
• Experience with designing, deploying, and administering cloud-based solutions
• Experience of 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 of 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)

Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment which encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company. Northrop Grumman benefits give you the flexibility and control to choose the benefits that make the most sense for you and your family. Your benefits will include the following: Health Plan, Savings Plan, Paid Time Off and Additional Benefits including Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and much more!

Northrop Grumman has approximately 90,000 employees in all 50 states and in more than 27 countries. We strive to attract and retain the best employees by providing an inclusive work environment wherein employees are receptive to diverse ideas, perspectives, and talents to help solve our toughest customer challenges: to develop and maintain some of the most technically sophisticated products, programs, and services in the world.

Our Values. The women and men of Northrop Grumman Corporation are guided by Our Values. They describe our company as we want it to be. We want our decisions and actions to demonstrate these Values. We believe that putting Our Values into practice creates long-term benefits for shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, and the communities we serve.

Our Responsibility. At Northrop Grumman, we are committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards, embracing diversity and inclusion, protecting the environment, and striving to be an ideal corporate citizen in the community and in the world.

Primary Level Salary Range: $156,400.00 - $234,600.00The 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 insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.