Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Security Engineer (Cybersecurity/Anti-Tamper Engineer)

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.

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Security Engineer (Cybersecurity/Anti-Tamper Engineer) w/ Active Clearance to work with our talented Advanced Weapons team located in Northridge, CA.

This is an on-site position.

Description:

As an integral part of our multi-discipline engineering team in Advanced Weapons, you will be on the forefront of developing next generation solutions to protect technology for our nation’s warfighter. The ideal candidate will be supporting one of our Advanced Programs for defining and architecting a secured missile weapon system. This position will require close collaboration with team members of other projects within the organization for security architecture designs as well as external partners and customers. This is a 100% on-site position.

In this role, the selected candidate will (but not limited to):

• Provide analysis, development, implementation, and security assessments to ensure compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53, CNSSI 1253, and DoD RMF Knowledge Service guidance

• Define system architectures resistant to tampering and cyber-attacks

• Develop technical documentation/publication to document trade studies, system designs, analysis, and results related to systems security

• Identify Anti-Tamper Critical Program Information (CPI) and writing of Anti-Tamper and Verification & Validation Plans

• Support Anti-Tamper/Cybersecurity Integration & Test and executing Verification & Validation test events

• Utilize reverse engineering to architect and validate AT solutions

• Maintain technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications and participating in communities of practice to further domain knowledge

• Support security assessments and continuous monitoring

• Ensure secure software architectures and applications

• Develop standard and improvement processes for assessing, designing, implementing, and verifying security requirements

• Support the development of the system security engineering team’s training plan for their development in knowledge and skills

• Interface with inter-organizational management and external customers to communicate technical briefing and program status

• Support Program Management activities to ensure cost and schedule objectives are met

Basic qualifications for a Principal Systems Engineer level (T03): 

• B.S. in an engineering/computer science discipline and a minimum of five years of engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience

• Minimum two years of cybersecurity/anti-tamper-related experience (cybersecurity/anti-tamper requirements development, security and cyber threat analysis, security systems engineering, cyber systems architecture development and cybersecurity policy development)

• Must have demonstrated experience in solving technical problems independently with minimal supervision

• **U.S. Citizenship and active secret DoD clearance is required with the ability to obtain higher Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Basic qualifications for a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer level (T04):

• B.S. in an engineering/computer science discipline and a minimum of eight years of engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience

• Minimum five years of cybersecurity/anti-tamper-related experience (cybersecurity/anti-tamper requirements develop