Sentinel Systems STPA-Security Engineer T2 or T3 14310

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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 - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. 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 — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

The Sentinel Mission Defense Team (MDT) is seeking a highly motivated and qualified system engineer to serve as a System-Theoretic Process Analysis for Security (STPA-Sec) Engineer, Level 2 or Level 3.  You will be combining traditional Systems Engineering skills, with a holistic system analyses approach in order to uncover any potential security, safety, or availability features using the existing STPA handbook guidelines, industry security frameworks (NIST, ISO, NISPOM), and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) workspace. You will be generating structured requirements, decomposition strategies, and mitigations within STPA principles. This position will be in Roy, UT and may offer a competitive relocation package.

Additional Responsibilities include:

• Execute combined traditional Systems Engineering principles, with a holistic system analyses approach in order to uncover any potential safety, security, or availability features using the existing STPA handbook guidelines, and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) workspace
• Ability to understand and decompose systems to identify causal scenarios; aptitude to construct control structures and identify unsafe control actions
• Assessment and analysis of threats, vulnerabilities, and risk for identified mission-critical functions and critical components
• Lead and execute completion Statement of Work requirements, Program Milestone Exit Criteria, and program maturity commitments
• Lead in a variety of working groups and customer meetings; ensure communication of risk environment with stakeholders
• Self-starters compelled to take action in the workplace without requiring prompting from supervisors
• Support MDT with other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be a US Citizen with an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application with an investigation completed within the last 6 years.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need.

For Level 2 Systems Engineer

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 2 years of related experience, or a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of related experience
• Minimum 1 years of applying and understanding Systems Security Engineering principles applicable to US Government Defense Programs.
• Minimum 1 year experience demonstrating the ability to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings.
• Minimum 1 year experience in applying safety thinking to a complex system in a rapidly changing product or technology.
• Minimum 1 year experience in applying analytical methodologies to raw data in order to determine and present clear and precise findings and recommendations.
• Minimum 1 years of experience performing against schedule.

For Level 3 Principal Systems Engineer

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience, or a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 3 years of related experience, or a PhD in a STEM discipline and 1 year of related experience.
• Minimum 2 years of applying and understanding Systems Security Engineering principles applicable to US Government Defense Programs.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience demonstrating the ability to communicate effectively and clearly present technical approaches and findings.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in applying safety thinking to a complex system in a rapidly changing product or technology.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in applying analytic