Senior Principal Classified Cybersecurity Application Administrator

Senior Principal Classified Cybersecurity Application Administrator at Northrop Grumman

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 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 will 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 will have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

Cybersecurity Leaders, We Want You!

Cyber assets everywhere are under siege from a wide spectrum of threats. Almost daily, these threats grow in sophistication, breadth and speed. Support our entire enterprise and build the networks, staff the teams, and develop the processes that will keep us defining what’s possible. We have opportunities across our enterprise with 90,000 team members throughout the world. The only limit to your growth is your ambition and drive. We want to empower you to bring your best, with resources, support, and talented team members that will launch your career.

At Northrop Grumman, we take a holistic approach to cybersecurity, looking at the whole cyber landscape of people, processes and technology and the whole security realm of offense, defense, and exploitation. Thought leadership demands nothing less.

The Northrop Grumman Classified Solutions team is seeking a lead Senior Principal Classified Cybersecurity Application Administrator to assist the Information System Security Team with classified cybersecurity. In this role, the Cybersecurity Application Administrator will provide technical solutions to difficult Cybersecurity Application Administration and hardware problems. The selected candidate will be required to work on-site, full-time at our Melbourne, FL location. The individual will perform the following duties on a day-to-day basis in support of the program:

• Design and develop new systems, applications, and solutions for external customer's enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks.
• Ensure system security needs are established and maintained for operations development, security requirements definition, security risk assessment, systems analysis, systems design, security test and evaluation, certification and accreditation, systems hardening, vulnerability testing and scanning, incident response, disaster recover, and business continuity planning and provides analytical support for security policy development and analysis.
• Integrate new architectural analysis of cyber security features and relates existing system to future needs and trends, embeds advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction, provides engineering recommendations, and resolves integrations and testing issues.
• May interface with external entities including law enforcement, intelligence and other government organizations and agencies.

Note: Due to the classified nature of the work being performed, this position does not offer any virtual or telecommute working options. Applicants are encouraged to apply, only if they are willing to work on-site.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's Degree with 6 years of relevant experience; OR a Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of relevant experience
• Candidates must have a current DOD Secret level security clearance (at a minimum) in order to be considered
• Candidates must have the ability to obtain, and maintain, access to DOD Top Secret level security clearance as a condition of continued employment
• Candidates must have the ability to obtain, and maintain, access to Special Programs as a condition of employment
• Must have a DOD 8140 security certification (examples: Security+ CE or greater)
• Experience with Splunk to include managing/maintaining indexers, search heads, heavy forwarders, forwarders, data inputs, and deployment servers, creating and maintaining dashboards for users, creating custom extracts/regular expressions, familiarity with Splunk Query Language.
• Experience with cybersecurity practices, network technologies, system development lifecycles, and understanding of information technology infrastructure management/monitoring and applications.
• Experience with Linux, network architectures, Active Directory, and Group Policy management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security
• Active Top Secret, TS/SCI, SAP/SAR access, or Polygraph is preferred
• 10 years of experience with Certification and Accreditation of classified systems and Risk Management Framework
• Splunk Certified Enterprise Administrator and/or Architect certification
• Advanced technical knowledge of Splunk or Trellix in regard to configuration, deployment, and sustainment.
• Work under minimal direction and independently determine and develop approach to solutions.
• Adhere to strict Information Systems security guidelines in all cases.
• Maintain security audit and logging information on all classified networked and standalone computers as directed by the Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM).
• Experience developing guidelines, monitoring policies, and enforcing standards for cybersecurity frameworks and industry best practices supporting National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53, CNSSI 1253, and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Trellix experience to include administration of Anti-Virus, Exploit Protection, Data Loss Protection (DLP), and policy configuration & agent deployment.
• Nessus/ACAS experience on large enterprise networks.

Benefits

We offer flexible work arrangements, phenomenal learning opportunities, exposure to a wide variety of projects and customers, and a very friendly team environment. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) offer opportunities to be a friend, be active, be a volunteer, be a leader, be recognized, and to be yourself. At Northrop Grumman, we are on the cutting edge of innovation. Our diverse portfolio of programs means there are endless paths to cultivate your career. We also offer exceptional benefits/healthcare, a 9/80 work schedule, and a great 401k matching program. Come join us!

Key skills/competency

• Cybersecurity
• Splunk Administration
• Linux Systems
• Active Directory
• Risk Management Framework (RMF)
• NIST 800-53
• Trellix
• Classified Systems
• Network Security
• System Hardening