Northrop Grumman - Tampa, FL
posted 4 months ago
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. As a Senior Principal Cyber System Engineer-Networks at Northrop Grumman, you will maintain smooth operations of local area, worldwide, and virtual private networks (VPN). You will plan, evaluate, and coordinate the installation and/or reconfiguration of hardware and software elements of data and/or voice communication networks. Your role will require maintaining technical expertise in all areas of networks and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc. You may propose solutions to management to ensure all communications requirements based on future needs and current usage, configuring such solutions to optimize cost savings. Additionally, you will prepare or ensure that appropriate network documentation exists, including operational instructions, and provide regular monitoring and network analysis regarding short- and long-range planning for in-house systems. You will be working with our experienced engineering team developing industry-leading virtual environments to support Department of Defense Cyber efforts. This provides an environment to grow your expertise and sharpen your skills & knowledge. These environments are detailed engineering representations of current and future cyber systems, and our team is always looking for highly motivated individuals with impeccable work ethic and a strong ability to work in a collaborative dynamic team environment. The primary team is in Tampa, Florida with distributed team members embedded directly with the customer. Your ability to communicate and coordinate technical requirements with team members is a priority due to competing priorities and demanding deadlines. You must have the interpersonal skills required to assist remote customers troubleshoot problems from layer 1 to layer 7, and be able to work within a change management environment with the ability to document and test changes prior to implementation. You will also need to perform technical, operational, and security risk analysis for new changes and technologies and articulate risks, adapting new technologies to avoid limitations and obsolescence of both hardware and software.