Principal DevOps Engineer (Splunk)

The Northrop Grumman Classified Solutions team is seeking a Principal Engineer DevOps to serve as a Cybersecurity Application Developer to assist the software development and automation team. In this role, the Cybersecurity Application Developer will provide technical solutions to difficult Cybersecurity Application Administration and hardware problems. The selected candidate will be required to work on-site, full-time at our San Antonio, TX site. The individual will perform the following duties on a day-to-day basis in support of the program:

• Design and develop new systems, applications, and solutions for external customer’s enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks.
• Ensure system security needs are established and maintained for operations development, security requirements definition, security risk assessment, systems analysis, systems design, security test and evaluation, certification and accreditation, systems hardening, vulnerability testing and scanning, incident response, disaster recover, and business continuity planning and provides analytical support for security policy development and analysis.
• Integrate new architectural analysis of cyber security features and related existing system to future needs and trends, embeds advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction, provides engineering recommendations, and resolves integrations and testing issues.
• May interface with external entities including law enforcement, intelligence and other government organizations and agencies.

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5 years of relevant experience; OR a Master’s Degree with 3 years of relevant experience; Note: a total of 9 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Candidates must have the ability to obtain, and maintain, access to DOD Secret level security clearance as a condition of continued employment
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Experience with Splunk to include managing/maintaining indexers, search heads, heavy forwarders, forwarders, data inputs, and deployment servers, creating and maintaining dashboards for users, creating custom extracts/regular expressions, familiarity with Splunk Query Language.
• Experience with cybersecurity practices, network technologies, system development lifecycles, and understanding of information technology infrastructure management/monitoring and applications.
• Experience with Linux, network architectures, Active Directory, and Group Policy management.
• Endpoint Security experience to include administration of Anti-Virus, Exploit Protection, Data Loss Protection (DLP), and policy configuration & agent deployment.
• A current DoD 8570 Certification for IAT Level II or higher prior to start date (example: Security+ CE), * A current DoD Top Secret w/ SCI eligibility.
• Experience working with on-premise environments (physical servers, storage arrays, networking gear).
• Administration of VMware virtualization platforms - vCenter/ESXi, virtual networking, storage provisioning, and troubleshooting of virtual machines and workstations
• Experience with desktop-virtualization technologies such as Horizon, Dell Wyse Management, or Teradici
• Experience with multiple Linux distributions (e.g., Ubunti, Red Hat, CentOS) and command line troubleshooting.
• Administration of Windows and Windows Server core services to include: Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy, LDAP, MS Exchange, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM), SQL Server, WSUS, and related patch-management processes.
• Knowledge of routing protocols, VLANs, and layer 2/3 switch configuration.
• Functional familiarity with Cisco networking equipment and/or VMware NSX technologies.
• Practical experience with enterprise storage solutions such as NetApp or Synology.
• Ability to implement, maintain, and test backup/recovery solutions using VEEAM or comparable tools.
• Use and maintenance or monitoring/log-aggregation platforms such as ELK, SolarWinds, or VMware Aria.
• Administration of Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo for ticketing, documentation, source control, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Desire and aptitude to learn new technologies, develop skills, enhance troubleshooting capabilities.

Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment which encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company. Northrop Grumman benefits give you the flexibility and control to choose the benefits that make the most sense for you and your family.

Your benefits will include the following: Health Plan, Savings Plan, Paid Time Off and Additional Benefits including Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and much more!

Primary Level Salary Range: $103,600.00 - $155,400.00

The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate’s experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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.

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.