Cyber Systems Administrator (Shift)

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 Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team 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.  Come be a part of our mission!

 

We are looking for you to join our team as a Cyber Systems Administrator based out of Tampa, Fla. As a Cyber Systems Administrator 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. This position follows the Panama shift - 3 on 3 off and then 2 on 2 off.  12 hours, 1800-0600 rotating between nights and days every 3 months.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The candidate will be filling a role that requires a broad array of knowledge and skills heavily focused on Systems Administration and system engineering working with team members to support a Cyber Security program at a customer site. We're looking for a highly motivated individual with an impeccable work ethic and a strong ability to work in a collaborative fast-moving dynamic team environment. The primary team is located in Tampa, Florida with distributed team members embedded directly with the customer. Other responsibilities included:

• Maintains smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with Cyber Systems Engineers.

• Interacts with users and evaluates vendor products.

• Makes recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinates installation, and provides backup recovery.

• Develops and monitors policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.

• Ancillary duties may include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space.

• Periodically conduct a complete review of each system's audits and monitor corrective actions until all actions are closed.

• Prior administration of virtualization environments using technologies such as ESX, storage provisioning and networking of virtual systems

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, plus 3 years (or a Master's degree in a related field plus 1 years) of experience in Systems Administration; or 7 years of Systems Administration experience without a degree 

• US Citizenship is required with an active DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance which was active in the last 24 months

• Must possess or be able to obtain DoD 8570 Certification for IAT Level II or higher within two (2) months of starting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience configuring, administering and maintaining computer systems (Such as: Windows 10, Server 2012R2, Server 2016, Active Directory, RedHat Enterprise Linux)

• Experience writing standard operating procedure documentation and developing system cold-start documentation

• Experience maintaining and operating virtual environments for servers and workstations

• Experience configuring, administering, and maintaining patch deployment and management systems and providing patch management status reporting to management

• Experience configuring, monitoring, maintaining, and administering computer backup and recovery solutions and providing recovery status reporting to management

• Experience writing scripts (e.g. Batch, Bash, PowerShell, Python) to automate routine tasks

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Salary Range: $64,600 USD - $97,000 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

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.