Sr Prin Sys Admin - X-Lab Cloud Tech Admin 26-243 & 26-244

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: No

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 Space Systems—Missile Defense Integration offers an excellent opportunity for a Sr Principal Systems Administrator – X-Lab Cloud Technologies Administrator (26-243 & 26-244) to join our team of qualified and diverse professionals. Located at Schriever Space Force Base, CO, this role is essential for supporting the U.S. President, the Secretary of Defense, and combatant commanders at the strategic, regional, and operational levels. 

 

This position does not provide relocation assistance and requires on-site work with no remote options. 

 

Position Overview: 

 

The Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is a vital part of the Missile Defense System. It acts as an essential operational tool that allows the U.S. president, the secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at the strategic, regional, and operational levels to plan ballistic missile defenses systematically, monitor the battle collectively, and dynamically control networked sensors and weapons systems to meet global and regional mission goals. C2BMC supports layered missile defense systems that deliver an optimized response to threats across all ranges and flight phases. It functions as a force multiplier by connecting, integrating, and synchronizing autonomous sensors, weapon systems, and operations at both global and regional levels to improve performance. C2BMC is crucial for all grounds and flight tests that verify and demonstrate the current and future capabilities of missile defense systems. 

 

The selected candidate will be part of the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications Experimentation Laboratory (C2BMC X-Lab), which is a very fast paced and dynamic environment. The X-Lab is responsible for developing and integrating future-capability prototypes for the Missile Defense System, including Sensor/Weapon Integration, Algorithm Development, User Interface Development and other critical leading-edge missile defense technologies. 

 

The individual will be responsible for deploying and maintaining a large virtualization solution, spread across multiple remote sites. This environment includes solutions like virtualization hypervisor platforms, remote virtual desktop infrastructures, other direct user experience technologies, and other monitoring solutions for virtual infrastructure. 

 

Essential Functions: 

 

• Maintain hypervisor software patch/version level to stay current with vendor recommended versions to support current production requirements 
• Troubleshoot all virtualization/cloud solutions, working with hardware engineers to ensure all physical servers are in a nominal state and firmware are up to date 
• Monitor health of all virtualization/cloud services, to ensure maximum uptime in enterprise 
• Monitor and alerting virtualization capacity management for computer/storage load calculations, tracking virtual resource availability for expansion of enterprise 
• Collaborate with other teams, such as IDAM engineering, to configure new services for user access to virtual assets, utilizing cloud specific technologies 
• Deployment and maintenance of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technologies that provide access to enterprise services to user base, either local or remote (VMWare Horizon View and/or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops) 
• Act as primary administrator for Kubernetes containerized architecture for deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning processing 

 

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