Sr. Principal LSS Cyber Systems Engineer – 12971-1

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: Yes

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

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Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Sr Principal LSS Cyber Systems Engineer - 12971-1. This position is located in Roy, UT and supports the Sentinel program. This role may offer a competitive relocation assistance package.

Northrop Grumman System Test Team, Launch Support System (LSS) has an opening for a Cybersecurity Systems Engineer supporting the Sentinel program based out of the Roy, UT campus. Launch Support System (LSS) is a team well positioned to have a major impact on the Sentinel program and is staffed with many diverse disciplines to achieve our design goals. Our Team is tasked with deploying a flight test specific product at multiple locations across the US. LSS has a significant and valuable impact on range safety and flight data management through the life of the Sentinel program and coordinates with multiple other product groups.

A Cybersecurity Systems Engineer (CSSE) assesses/evaluates the customers’/stakeholders’ cybersecurity requirements to decompose, derive, and refine with clarity the system’s cybersecurity requirements to drive the built-in cybersecurity protections to the architecture and design. The CSSE also guides/supports the security layout / architecture and influences the security tools selection and development.  The CSSE evaluates/assess the proposed and realized implementation to identify security risks and verify the cybersecurity protections from the design are realized and integrated.  The CSSE guides/supports the development of verification efforts to ensure the cybersecurity protections / capabilities are functional, effective, and complete.  A CSSE supports the definition of security governance, and risk management.

What You’ll Get To Do:

•              Implement and review requirement decomposition, derivation, and flow down throughout a spec tree architecture and application to design.

•              Implement and review the application of cybersecurity profile stereotypes to a Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) Architecture

•              Support the architecture and design of existing cybersecurity requirements and protections

•              Process SOW, requirements, architecture, design, implementation, integration, verification & validation, field test, etc.

•              Provide cybersecurity system engineering implementation guidance and oversight to technical teams/implementers

•              Interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders to build consensus for security activities

•              Review and Assess stakeholder security objectives, protection needs and concerns, security requirements, and associated 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 of reducing errors, flaws, and weaknesses that may constitute security vulnerability leading to unacceptable asset loss and consequences

•              Identify, quantify, and evaluate the costs/benefits of security functions and considerations