Staff Cybersecurity Analyst – Cybersecurity Engineering Lead (24-188) (BLSk)

Northrop Grumman Corp. (AU); Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Requisition ID: R10161678

• Category: Information Technology

• Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America | Schriever AFB, Colorado, United States of America

• Clearance Type: Top Secret

• Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position

• Shift: Days (United States of America)

• Travel Required: Yes, 10% of the Time

• Positions Available: 1

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. 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.

Northrop Grumman Space Systems – Launch and Missile Defense Systems has an exciting career opportunity for a Staff Cybersecurity Analyst – Cybersecurity Engineering Lead (24-188) to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in the Colorado Springs, CO, area.

Position Overview:

The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program integrates the Missile Defense System. It is a vital operational system that enables the U.S. president, secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations. C2BMC supports a layered missile defense capability that enables an optimized response to threats of all ranges in all phases of flight.

This position ensures that C2BMC-Global realizes the Cyber architecture, requirements, and technical baseline required. The Cybersecurity Engineering Lead will represent the program from a Cybersecurity perspective in assorted Senior meetings, Conferences, and Program Milestones with both Program and Customer Leadership. Documenting lessons learned, as well as the best security engineering practices and industry standards, will be required in daily tasks.

Essential Functions:

• Travel between Colorado Springs and Huntsville is required to support Customer and Program Leadership meetings.

• Work with distributed functional personnel at development and operational sites may also be required.

• Considered an expert authority in discipline.

• Identity and Access Management methodologies, encryption algorithms, cryptology, database, and enterprise information security architecture.

• Proficiency in implementing Cybersecurity principles and requirements relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.

• Experience in cybersecurity requirements evaluation and validation.

• Knowledge of Cybersecurity systems engineering principles.

• Familiarity with network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DHCP) and directory services (e.g., DNS).

• Knowledge of STIG application and hardening operating systems.

• Experience in Cyber threat assessment and risk management of a mission system.

• Knowledge of cyber operations and operational impacts.

• Analyze design constraints, trade-offs, and detailed system and security designs to identify necessary Agile lifecycle support.

• Apply security policies to applications that interface with one another.

• Assess the effectiveness of information protection measures utilized by system(s).

• Assess threats to and vulnerabilities of the computer system(s) to develop a security risk profile.

• Build, test, and modify product prototypes using working or theoretical models.

• Conduct assessments of the application's security design for appropriate security controls that protect the confidentiality and integrity of Information.

• Integrate information assurance (IA) or IA-enabled products.

• Design and develop secure interface specifications between interconnected systems.

• Design, develop, integrate, and update system security measures (including policies and requirements) that provide confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.

• Design or integrate appropriate data backup capabilities into overall system designs.

• Develop detailed security design documentation for component and interface specifications to support system design and development.

• Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan the development of a new application or modification of an existing application.

• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine design feasibility within time and cost constraints.

Basic Qualifications:

• An active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required to start.

• 14 years with a Bachelor’s degree in a related field; 12 years with a master's degree or 18 years experience in lieu of a degree.

• Must possess a DoD 8140 certification at IASAE – Level II or higher (Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA).

What We Can Offer You:

Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment that encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $225,000

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.