Staff Electronics Engineer

2 weeks ago


Palmdale CA, United States Northrop Grumman Full time

Category: Engineering
- Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)
- Travel Required: Yes, 25% of the Time
- Relocation Assistance: Relocation assistance may be available
- 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 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. Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems is seeking a highly qualified, mission-oriented Staff Electronics Engineer (Network Engineer) to support our Avionics Integration organization. Design, operate and manage companion, RMF compliant classified and unclassified networks in both lab and field environments.
- Deploy, utilize, and maintain network management tools.
- Maintain smooth operation of network and network management equipment during network expansion.
- Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to design network integration solutions to achieve mission objectives on a wide range data flow scenarios and use cases.
- Monitor and sustain target uptime and latency on systems. Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance, utilization, and reliability of the system including scripting for optimizing IT environment.
- Collaborate on requirements and planning for network and network management hardware / software purchasing including upgrades, licenses, warranties, tech support and refreshes.
- Document designs using detailed schematics, diagrams, and specifications and maintain system documentation, work instructions as needed. Prepares security documentation for hand-offs to Cyber Security.
- Plan and report project status as required for recurring and non-recurring efforts.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 14 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in a STEM discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline with 9 years of related engineering experience.
- Current expertise with network architecture, network design, requirement specifications, and equipment selection with ability to generate, coordinate and maintain network designs and configuration artifacts.
- Solid understanding of network operating systems (JUNOS, Cisco IOS)
- Experience deploying, configuring, hardening, and diagnosing JSIG/RMF compliant networks including switches, routers, firewalls, and encryption devices such as GD TACLANES.
- Experience with network diagnostic, monitoring, and analysis tools (e.g. SolarWinds network tools)
- Ability to lift equipment weighing up to 40 pounds.
- Ability to travel, work after hours and weekends, as needed. Position includes the possibility of about 25% regional/local travel during high operational temp periods.
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance
- Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR). This SAP/PAR must be obtained prior to commencement of employment and must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs. (SAP/PAR will be upgraded once selected candidate is in role. Therefore, candidate must also be able to obtain and maintain upgraded SAP/PAR.)

Experience with Splunk, GEM One, Windows Server and VMWare
- Experience with advanced Bash/Ruby/Python script writing
- Experience with Type 1 Network encryption
- DoD 8570 Certification in a primary OS (Windows, Cisco).
- Experience with NetOps/NOC design integrated with program Cyber
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar IT degree.

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 application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. 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.



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