US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: None

TRAVEL: Yes, 50% of the Time

Description

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.

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.

Northrop Grumman is seeking an Assoc Cyber Systems Engineer. This position is remote, though will require significant amounts of in-person travel and will be directly supporting manufacturing sites/locations across the United States. This position will be in the Pathways rotational program where there will be three rotation opportunities within engineering.

The qualified candidate will become part of Northrop Grumman’s Chief Information Office - Cybersecurity organization.

Roles and Responsibilities

Candidates will have the opportunity to visit and assess NGC production sites, applying a cyber security viewpoint to how risk can be reduced while improving productivity for site employees. This role has significant visibility and exposure across multiple sectors of NGC.

• Perform risk assessments of manufacturing site IT and OT (operational technology) equipment for potential security concerns.

• Assist manufacturing site staff and sector CISO teams with cyber uplift activities for identified cyber risks.

• Assist in evaluation of new manufacturing IT/OT equipment for usage within manufacturing sites.

• Provide input on potential new security solutions and designs in support of manufacturing environments.

• Assist manufacturing site personnel with documentation of site security posture.

Role Expectations:

Candidate should be comfortable working across many different teams, sites, and with a variety of different computing environments. Most successful candidates will be willing to explore and be comfortable discussing network and systems architecture and various operating systems (Windows, and different Linux flavors). Being able to research different technologies and ‘get up to speed’ quickly is essential to success in this role. Candidate should also be comfortable working independently without supervision and direct daily tasking.

Basic Qualifications:

A candidate must meet ALL of the below criteria. The candidate must:

• Be completing or has completed their degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) from an accredited institution

• Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0 or higher (unofficial academic transcripts must be provided at time of application by uploading the documents to your application or profile)

• Be able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. citizenship is a pre-requisite)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have an overall cumulative GPA of 3.70/4.0 or higher

• DoD 8570 IAT/IAM Level II or III certification a plus (CompTIA Security+, CISSP Associate, etc.)

• Knowledge of cyber security best practices

• Basic system administration knowledge

• Understanding of basic networking

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Comfortable explaining technical details to a non-technical audience.

• Comfortable navigating a matrixed organization.

• Comfortable collaborating with multiple stakeholders across functional and technical skillsets

• Experience with NIST publications, (NIST 800-53, 800-171)

• Familiar with Agile practices

• Comfortable in an environment that requires strategic thinking and decision-making.

• Familiarity with container-based applications also a plus.

Salary Range: (70,200 – 105,400)

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.

Northrop Grumman is a technology company, focused on global security and human discovery. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with capabilities they need to connect, advance and protect the U.S. and its allies. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ toughest problems, our 90,000 employees define possible every day.