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Northrop Grumman · 5 days ago

Sr Principal Cybersecurity Application Administrator/Architect - Secret - R10218209

Melbourne, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$123K/yr - $184K/yr

8+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is a leader in technological advancements and is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Application Administrator/Architect to support information systems lifecycle activities. The role involves designing and developing secure systems for external cyber networks and ensuring compliance with security requirements and risk assessments.

AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

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 recovery, and business continuity planning and provide analytical support for security policy development and analysis

Integrate new architectural analysis of cyber security features and relate existing system to future needs and trends, embedded 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

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)

Qualification

CybersecuritySplunkSecurity CertificationRisk Management FrameworkNIST SP 800-53McAfee/Trellix/HBSSCommunication SkillsTeam Collaboration

Required

Master's Degree with 6 years of relevant experience; OR a Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of relevant experience; OR an Associate's Degree with 10 years of relevant experience; OR a High School Diploma (or equivalent) with 12 years of relevant experience is required

Must have a security certification in CAP, CASP+, SecurityX, CISM, or CISSP to be considered

Must have a Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator and/or Architect certification to be considered

Candidates must have a current DOD Secret level security clearance (at a minimum) in order to be considered with the ability to obtain a 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 continued employment

Preferred

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security

Active Top Secret, TS/SCI, SAP/SAR access, or Polygraph is preferred

Experience with Certification and Accreditation of classified systems and Risk Management Framework

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. Ability to deploy new Splunk servers

Advanced technical knowledge of Splunk or McAfee/Trellix/HBSS in regard to configuration, deployment, and sustainment

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)

McAfee/Trellix/HBSS 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