Senior Principal Cyber Protection
Northrop GrummanAbout the role
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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.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 Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Test Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals conducting cybersecurity test activities in San Antonio, TX.
In this role, the Senior Cybersecurity Test Engineer assesses and tests system cybersecurity requirements, system security architecture, and system security layout. The candidate will operate in a team environment and collaborate across the organization (as required) to accomplish team goals by coordinating with customers and other testing organizations.
Duties will include but are not limited to guiding, scheduling, planning, executing, and reporting cyber test activities to develop artifacts in support of authorization packages. The Senior Cybersecurity Test Engineer will perform cyber-attack path analysis of system architectures and is responsible for the security governance, risk management, and compliance of a system while it is under test for the customer. Periodic travel to operational or development sites is anticipated to perform & support cyber test activities.
Responsibilities include:
Perform cyber testing, verification, and validation
Validate system security requirements definition and analysis, establish system security designs, implement security designs in hardware, software, data, and procedures
Participate in team reviews of technical requirements, designs and implementation plans prior to deployment of systems, digital communications systems, network protocols, computer architectures, and computer security penetration tools and techniques
Provide cyber security implementation guidance to technical design teams and develop testing use cases to meet requirements and architecture model content.
Support development of technical decision-making guidance to the Cybersecurity team to ensure timely, high quality product deliveries supporting flight test events geared to meet mission requirements
Ensure weapon system compliance with all contractually obligated cybersecurity standards and guidance, including but not limited to CNSSI 1253, DoD 8140, DoD 8510, and AFI 17-101
Ensure weapon system assessments are completed to meet all contractually obligated cybersecurity standards and guidance, including but not limited to RMF and cyber survivability requirements
Provide input to program milestones and metrics, adhering to cybersecurity-relevant plans and schedules
Solve complex problems across disciplines in an Agile environment
Support training and mentoring of junior cyber testers
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science/Engineering, Software Development/Engineering, or related STEM degree field and 8 years of related experience; Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science/Engineering, Software Development/Engineering, or related STEM degree with 6 years of related experience; PhD in Cybersecurity, Computer Science/Engineeri
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