Staff Data Center Architect – Network Communications

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 25% 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.

This position is currently contingent on program award and associated program award funding. Start dates are determined after funding confirmation.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is looking to add a Staff Data Center Architect – Network Communications to our team in Chantilly, VA. This position will be in our Avionics Integration Organization.

The selected candidate will be responsible for integrating and testing software/hardware systems in complex IT systems and will be working independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment working closely with customers and key stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design and maintain an on-premise multi-tenant data center environment.
• Act as point of contract (POC) for the customer on all technical related issues, including Tier 1-3 support.
• Develop engineering documentation for system configuration
• Execute engineering projects on schedule.
• Generate and redline documented procedures and troubleshoot.
• Demonstrate good coordination, planning, and documentation skills.
• Implement engineering changes to the system as required
• The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations and significantly diverse assignments with the ability to work independently.

This role will be required to work full-time, independently on-site at customer facility.  There is no remote / hybrid / telework available for this position and it will require the ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master of Science degree and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD with 7 years of related engineering experience. (Four additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor Degree.)
• Demonstrated experience in IT disciplines, some of which should be in a lead role
• Demonstrated experience with software virtualization products
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning/roadmap development and execution for operational systems
• Ability to obtain and maintain CompTIA Security+ Certificate. This certificate must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
• Demonstrated experience with modern virtualization software and releases (Azure, VMware or similar).
• Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Top Secret/SCI clearance, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active CompTIA Security+ Certification
• Demonstrated expertise with mission support systems.
• Demonstrated experience in IT process improvement through software automation process.
• Demonstrated experience with on-premise data centers, cloud services, and edge computing.
• Experience administrating of vSphere and vCF; experience with ESXi, vCenter, NSX and VDI
• Experience trouble shooting of VMware products in a production environment
• Experience administrating Container Technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker) in an production environment
• Operating System Certification (Linux+, VMware Certified, etc.)
• Aria Automation (vRA) and Aria Operations (vRO) experience
• Scripting experience with vRO (PowerShell, Python, JavaScript).
• Experience administrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (or equivalent) or above.
• Experience administrating of NetApp Storage system On Tap and Storage grid.
• In-depth experience in Operations and Maintenance activities of IT infrastructure
• Experience configuring