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Northrop Grumman Australia ยท 3 days ago

Sr Principal Cybersecurity Application Administrator/Architect - Secret

Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company that seeks experienced Cybersecurity Application Administrators/Architects to support information systems lifecycle activities. The role involves designing and developing new systems for external customers, ensuring system security needs are established, and integrating architectural analysis of cybersecurity features.

Defense & Space
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Responsibilities

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 recovery, and business continuity planning and provide analytical support for security policy development and analysis
Integrate new architectural analysis of cyber security features and relate existing system to future needs and trends, embedded 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
Adhere to strict Information Systems security guidelines in all cases
Maintain security audit and logging information on all classified networked and standalone computers as directed by the Information Systems Security Manager (ISSM)

Qualification

CybersecuritySplunkSecurity CertificationRisk Management FrameworkCertificationAccreditationAnalytical SkillsTeam CollaborationCommunication Skills

Required

Master's Degree with 6 years of relevant experience; OR a Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of relevant experience; OR an Associate's Degree with 10 years of relevant experience; OR a High School Diploma (or equivalent) with 12 years of relevant experience is required
Must have a security certification in CAP, CASP+, SecurityX, CISM, or CISSP to be considered
Must have a Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator and/or Architect certification to be considered
Candidates must have a current DOD Secret level security clearance (at a minimum) in order to be considered with the ability to obtain a DOD Top Secret level security clearance as a condition of continued employment
Candidates must have the ability to obtain, and maintain, access to Special Programs as a condition of continued employment

Preferred

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security
Active Top Secret, TS/SCI, SAP/SAR access, or Polygraph is preferred
Experience with Certification and Accreditation of classified systems and Risk Management Framework
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. Ability to deploy new Splunk servers
Advanced technical knowledge of Splunk or McAfee/Trellix/HBSS in regard to configuration, deployment, and sustainment
Experience developing guidelines, monitoring policies, and enforcing standards for cybersecurity frameworks and industry best practices supporting National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53, CNSSI 1253, and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF)
McAfee/Trellix/HBSS experience to include administration of Anti-Virus, Exploit Protection, Data Loss Protection (DLP), and policy configuration & agent deployment
Nessus/ACAS experience on large enterprise networks

Benefits

Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
401k matching program

Company

Northrop Grumman Australia

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Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.

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Late Stage
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