Staff Engineer Network

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Polygraph

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.

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is seeking a candidate to join our diverse team of engineers, system administrators, and operators as a Sr. Principal Engineer Network professional in Chantilly, VA.  The successful candidate will be expected to monitor, maintain, and provide Tier-2 and Tier-3 support of a mission critical network infrastructure, collect data for analysis, perform network upgrades, and be able to produce documentation and diagrams of the work they perform.  The work is unique, challenging and rewarding. Most of all, its work that makes a difference.

The successful candidate should thrive in a fast-paced, quick response, work environment with high expectations, diverse assignments, and possess the ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple teams across all technical levels. The candidate must be able to lead the way to maintain and develop creative solutions to complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• Strong/Expert support of all aspects of network management, to include but not limited to, planning, network design, scheduling, implementation, maintenance, change management, and support of a mission critical network infrastructure.
• Maintain, evaluate, test, and apply STIG configurations for network devices.
• Possess strong/expert skills in planning and maintenance for necessary software upgrades to firewalls, switches and routers.
• Respond to security findings and events across the infrastructure.
• Lead in planning and executing engineering projects across multiple teams.
• Expert in the implementation of approved changes to the system as required.
• Expert understanding of physical network infrastructures and media types.
• Superb planning, coordination, communication, presentation, and documentation skills.

Basic Qualifications for Staff Engineer Network:

• Must have active TS/SCI with Polygraph and maintain active status
• Active DoD 8570 IAT Level II, or higher, certification such as CompTIA Security+
• 16 years of related experience in lieu of a degree; or bachelor’s degree and 12 years of related experience; or a master’s degree and 10 years of related experience or a PhD and 8 years of experience
• Strong understanding of the OSI Model and ability to verbally demonstrate in an interview.
• Professional experience of routing, switching, and firewall concepts and protocols (Examples being: OSPF and Spanning-tree, state-full and stateless traffic policies, and IPv4 CIDR subnetting principles).
• Hands on development and testing configurations, and implementation to a critica