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Sr Principal Cyber Systems Engineer-15729

Northrop Grumman
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Aug 2025
💰 $216,400/yr($144,200/yr$216,400/yr)

About the role

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top 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.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer –15729 . This position will be located in Roy, Utah or Huntsville, Alabama and will support Advanced Programs. This position is contingent upon contract award.

We are seeking a Cyber Systems Engineer and will support Advanced Programs.

WHAT YOU'LL GET TO DO: 
• Perform technical planning, system integration, verification/validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analysis for total systems. 
• Perform analysis at all levels of total product system to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. 
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total system solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. 
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications. 
• Implement and review cyber requirement decomposition, derivation, and flow down
• Implement and review traceability of cyber requirements throughout a spec tree architecture to the design and its models
• Support the architecture and design of baked in cybersecurity requirements and protections
• Implement and review the application of cyber security profile stereotypes to a Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) Architecture
• Provide cybersecurity system engineering implementation guidance and oversight to technical teams/implementers
• Review and Assess stakeholder security objectives, protection needs and concerns, security requirements, and associated verification/validation methods
• Implement, review and assess cybersecurity system requirements verification/validation methods
• Identify and/or assess vulnerabilities and susceptibility to life cycle disruptions, hazards, and threats
• Provide security considerations to inform systems engineering efforts with the objective to reduce errors, flaws, and weakness that may constitute security vulnerability leading to unacceptable asset loss and consequences
• Identify, quantify, and evaluate the costs/benefits of security functions and considerations to inform analysis of alternatives, engineering trade-offs, and risk treatment decisions
• Author, support and maintain cybersecurity program documentation & RMF package documentation:  Cybersecurity Strategies, System Security Plans, Continuous Monitoring Plans, Risk Assessment Report, Security Control Traceability Matrix, Plan Of Actions & Milestones, etc.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: 
• 8 Years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in related field of study, 6 years with a masters, 4 years with a PhD, or 4 additional years in lieu of a degree. 
•  Must have an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope, with an 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
• Direct experience in one or more of the following Systems Engineering Activities: system requirements decomposition/derivation/flow down/traceability, architecture, high-level/detail design, implementation, integration and test, and/or verification and validation. 
• Experience in system security architecture development
• Must hold IAT Level II Certifications
 

Preferred Qualifications:

• IAT Level III Certifications
• Master's degree in Cybersecurity Engineering
• Familiarity with Systems Security Engineering (SSE) documentation (e.g. Cybersecurity Strategies, Information Support Plans, Program Protection Plans) 
• Previous experience in Software Assurance and/

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