Hybrid Senior Principal Engineer – Information Assurance

at Northrop Grumman

• Job title: Senior Principal Engineer – Information Assurance
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $118,600 - $178,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Jenkins, Linux, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Huntsville, United States

About the role

• Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman, leading system security software assurance for mission-critical systems. Focused on software and hardware assurance with a robust engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Assessment and analysis of threats, vulnerabilities, and risk for identified mission-critical functions and critical components
• Support courses of action based on knowledge and experience, initiative, guidance, and established regulations and policies
• Contributes to program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones to for Software & Hardware Assurance
• Participate in a variety of working groups and customer meetings; ensure communication of risk environment with stakeholders
• Review technical security assessments of SSE environments to identify points of vulnerability, non-compliance with established standards and regulations and recommended mitigation strategies
• Ensure the architecture and design of systems are functional and secure; support the design, development, implementation, and integration of security systems and system components
• Execute completion Statement of Work requirements, Program Milestone Exit Criteria, and program maturity commitments

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline from an accredited university and 8 years of related experience; a master’s degree with 6 years; or a PhD with 4 years of related experience.
• Must be a US Citizen with an active U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope (<6 years)
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) approval within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
• Candidate MUST have a current IAT level II (or higher) certification (i.e. Security+)
• Experience in a Software/System Security role
• Experience with Software Test/Development and use of static code analysis tools
• Ability to debug existing software and correct defects
• Solid experience utilizing the C based programming languages
• Experience with source code management (git, bitbucket, Gitlab), Compilers (gcc, ts)
• Experience with Bamboo and/or Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools
• Experience identifying vulnerabilities and assessing risk for software
• Demonstrated software development experience
• Ability to analyze user requirements and derive cyber and performance requirements for software
• Experience with working in Windows and Linux environments

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401k
• Educational Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs & Work/Life Solutions
• Paid Time Off
• Health & Wellness Resources
• Employee Discounts