Sr. Staff Cyber Architect

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance availableCLEARANCE TYPE: PolygraphTRAVEL: 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.The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered to provide the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!
We have an opening for a Sr. Staff Cyber Architect to join our Ground Systems Software (SW) Engineering Integrated Product Team (IPT) in Redondo Beach, CA. This position is 100% on site, in a SCIF supporting a Space program. The successful candidate will join a large infrastructure team to provide Subject Matter Expert level technical leadership to two large programs. The position requires deep knowledge of LAN / WAN networking, software defined networking, virtualization, Linux OS, cloud infrastructures, and will provide top level architecture support to the program and its remote sites (including international).

What you'll get to do:

Design of complex network architectures to address customer requirements
Provide expert level network knowledge and application of modern networking techniques and technologies to proposal activities
Planning of large LAN / WAN deployments with minimal downtime
Mentoring of network engineers both local to Space Park and other sites
Formulating innovative solutions to resolve difficult challenges
Detailed analysis of program requirements and plans to address
Interaction with other IPTs SMEs for requirements gathering and understanding
Ancillary duties will include, but are not limited to: evaluation of vendor products, providing recommendations for hardware / software, providing backup recovery, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, building of systems and assistance with asset management
Applicant must be experienced in STIG configuration, classified processing, and security procedures and maintain relevant certifications
Basic Qualifications:

14 years of relevant experience with Bachelor's in Science; 12 years of relevant experience with Master's; 10 years of relevant experience with PhD
Active SCI and adjudicated CI Poly required at the time of application
Extensive experience and knowledge of IPv4/IPv6, subnetting
Extensive experience and knowledge of L1 thru L6 networking
Extensive experience and knowledge of static and dynamic routing
DISA STIGs as they apply to network devices
Security+ or better certification
Multicast networking
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a STEM discipline preferred
Experience with Solarwinds network monitoring
Experience with Cisco ISE applications
Experience with Software Defined Networking
Experience with VMWare
Experience with Crypto units such as HAIPE
Experience with AWS
Experience w/SDNs and Cisco ACI
Experience with Cisco Firewalls
Experience with MPLS, SR-MPLS, PCEP, TVR, IS-IS, OSPF, gNMI/RPC
Microsoft Visio Diagram creation