Principal Computer Systems Architect
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Ngc. United States-California-San Diego · full-time · $114,000–$171,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Work alongside engineers and technicians in a laboratory setting
- Evaluate new industry technologies and recommend how they could fit into the program’s systems
- Apply engineering updates and shape end-to-end system designs around technical requirements
- Configure networks and coordinate with peers, subject experts and government engineers
What you bring
- Qualify through a science or engineering bachelor’s and five years’ experience, a master’s and three years, or a STEM doctorate and one year
- Bring deep technical knowledge of Red Hat or another Linux operating system, along with Splunk experience
- Understand STIGs, their implementation and Linux BIND DNS, and have scripting or programming experience
- Hold an active DoD Secret clearance and be a U.S. citizen
Who this fits
This role suits a senior systems architect who can work directly with engineers on Linux systems, networks and integration. You must work on-site at the San Diego Spectrum Center, hold an active Secret clearance and be a U.S. citizen. Travel is ten percent.
From the employer
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.Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our organization is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter.
We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal Computer Systems Architect based out of San Diego, CA. As a Principal Computer Systems Architect at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.
What You’ll get to Do:
- Work closely with engineers and technicians in a lab environment
- Advise on integration of new emerging industry technologies to the program’s systems
- Implement engineering changes to the system as required
- Review, analyze, and incorporate technical requirements into end-to-end system architectures
- Responsible for completing the network configurations and coordinating with the peers, SMEs, and government engineers.
- Occasional travel may be required
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in science, engineering, or related discipline with 5 years of experience; OR 3 years of relevant experience with a Masters degree; OR 1 year of experience with STEM PhD degree. An additional 4 years of relevant experience can be considered in lieu of a Bachelor degree.
- Advance and in-depth technical knowledge of Red Hat and/or other Linux operating systems.
- Experience utilizing and working with Splunk
- Knowledge of STIGs and STIG implementation + DNS; specifically Linux BIND
- Scripting/Programming experience (e.g. Bash/Shell, Ansible, Python, etc.)
- Full on-site presence at San Diego Spectrum Center campus
- Ability to travel 10% of the time
- Must be a US Citizen
- CLEARANCE: A current/active DoD Secret clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with imaging, backup and restore software and scripting (Clonezilla, Linux dump, etc)
- Experience leading and managing internal programs and working with engineers to delegate tasking/efforts
- Experience with containers (Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes)
- Strong experience with virtualization platforms (VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, RH-V)
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance and provide milestone progress on critical items or scheduled items
- Ability to mentor and help grow junior engineers and share knowledge and experience to improve procedures, processes and bring recommendations for technological improvements
- Ability to work and support a flexible schedule (2nd shift, RDO Fridays, possibly weekends) as required
- Basic to advance knowledge of networking and network systems including iSCSI connectivity functionality
- Experience in design, implementation, and sustainment of Linux/Unix systems
- Experience in design, implementation, and sustainment of Containerization technologies
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