Staff Cyber Systems Engineer
Quick Summary
Provide Engineering and Administrative support onsite for a team of developers and testers,
Must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered. 12 Years with Bachelor’s Degree; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD; 16 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.
At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support you with expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.
We are looking for you to join our team as a Staff Cyber Systems Engineer to join our cross functional Northern Virginia Engineering Discipline Team!
This position will be located at a Mission Systems Sector site in Northern Virginia.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Provide Engineering and Administrative support onsite for a team of developers and testers, often deviating from industry standard procedures to meet mission needs but maintaining system security standards.
- →Working as part of a team to design, build and maintain AWS and hybrid-cloud systems
- →Administering systems based on Linux and Windows operating systems
- →Maintaining and troubleshooting IP networking systems for AWS and hybrid-cloud systems
- →Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
Requirements
~2 min read- Must be a US citizen with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered.
- 12 Years with Bachelor’s Degree; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD; 16 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with designing, deploying, and administering cloud-based solutions
- Experience of architecture, maintenance, and administration of Linux and Windows Operating Systems within large enterprise environments
- Experience with automating tasks (e.g.; Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python)
- Proven experience working within IT Systems Design, Deployment and Administration
- Cloud service certification (e.g.; AWS, Azure, Google, or similar)
- Experience with one or more programming languages
- Extensive experience of designing, deploying, and troubleshooting IPv4 Networking, including Subnetting, OSPF Routing, VLANs and VPNs;
- Recent roles in Technical or Team Leadership positions
- Knowledge of cloud database management (e.g.; MySQL RDS and PostgreSQL)
- Knowledge of cybersecurity in the context of the cloud
- Comfortable working in an Agile Development environment.
- Experience managing and manipulating containers (e.g.; PODMAN, DOCKER, KUBERNETES)
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 15, 2026
- First seen
- October 5, 2026
- Last seen
- October 8, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 2
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 14%
- Scored at
- October 8, 2026
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