Requisition Description
Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
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. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a candidate to join our diverse team of engineers, system administrators, and operators as a Principal Cyber Systems Engineer or Senior 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:
Administer and maintain Windows and Linux server environments
Perform monthly patching, vulnerability remediation, and maintenance activities
Support and maintain existing enterprise infrastructure, including virtualization, logging, authentication, and security systems
Monitor system health, performance, and security events to ensure operational availability
Provide Tier 2 / Tier 3 support for operators and junior administrators
Troubleshoot complex issues across systems, network, security, and application layers
Maintain Active Directory, account provisioning, group policy, DNS, certificates, and access controls
Support authentication services including RADIUS and MFA platforms
Maintain enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions such as Elastic Stack
Support virtual infrastructure administration using VMware vSphere
Develop and update SOPs, technical documentation, and implementation procedures
Prepare technical change documentation for Change Control Board (CCB) review
Support system hardening, compliance, and vulnerability scanning using tools such as Nessus and Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator
Assist the ISSM with system testing, use case validation, and security compliance efforts
Evaluate and implement new technical solutions in response to emerging mission or cybersecurity requirements (for example, Zero Trust Architecture initiatives)
Support limited travel (5–10%) for system installs, upgrades, or remote site support
Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer Basic Qualifications:
Active TS/SCI is required to start; with willingness to receive a polygraph
8 Years with Bachelor’s Degree; 6 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD; OR 12 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
Security+ certification required
5+ years of experience administering Windows and Linux enterprise environments with CLI experience
Experience with Active Directory, DNS, certificates, and account management
Experience performing patching, maintenance, and vulnerability remediation
Experience supporting enterprise virtualization environments such as VMware vSphere
Experience with independent troubleshooting skills across systems and networking
Experience writing SOPs and technical implementation documentation
Ability to support 24/7 operational environments and escalation support
Willingness to travel 5–10%
Preferred Qualifications:
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Experience with Elastic Stack / enterprise logging platforms
Experience with MFA and RADIUS
Experience with Wireshark packet analysis
Experience with Nessus Security Center
Experience with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / HBSS
Experience implementing new enterprise capabilities driven by cybersecurity or mission requirements
Experience supporting Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) initiatives
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 of 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: $129,300.00 - $193,900.00The 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.The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job pongc