Senior Cyber Systems Engineer – TS Clearance

Northrop Grumman Corp.; Jessup (MD); On-site; USD 156,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Savings plan

Paid time off

Education assistance

Training and development

9/80 schedule

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems seeks a Sr Principal Cyber Systems Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD to implement cyber survivability requirements across weapon system designs. You will guide security architecture, perform risk analyses, and support verification and governance within an Agile DevSecOps environment.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance, DoD 8570/ ANI standards familiarity, and collaboration with cross-functional teams on Sentinel program cybersecurity tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; 8+ years with BS, or 6+ with MS, or 4+ with PhD in cyber systems engineering or related field.
• Experience with RMF assessment artifacts, DoD security standards, and system life cycle processes.
• Ability to work in an Agile/DevSecOps environment and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement weapon system cybersecurity requirements across designs and architectures.
• Guide security governance, risk management, and verification activities.
• Perform cyber-attack surface analyses and contribute to cybersecurity strategy and documentation.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Systems Eng

RMF

NIST RMF

MBSE

CISSP

DevSecOps

Threat analysis

Requirements decom

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Cameo

IBM DOORS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems seeks a Sr Principal Cyber Systems Engineer in Annapolis Junction, MD to implement cyber survivability requirements across weapon system designs. You will guide security architecture, perform risk analyses, and support verification and governance within an Agile DevSecOps environment.

The role requires active Top Secret clearance, DoD 8570/ ANI standards familiarity, and collaboration with cross-functional teams on Sentinel program cybersecurity tasks.