Job Description:

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.
Job Description: Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Senior Staff Principal Network Communications (5) to maintain smooth operation of local area, worldwide and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) at Chantilly VA. Successful candidate will plan, evaluate, and coordinate installation and/or reconfiguration of hardware and software elements of data and/or voice communication network. Maintains technical expertise in all areas of networks and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc. May propose solutions to management to ensure all communications requirements based on future needs and current usage, configuring such solutions to optimize cost savings. Prepares or ensures that appropriate network documentation exists, including operational instructions. Provides regular monitoring and network analysis regarding short- and long-range planning for in-house systems. May coordinate third-party maintenance for network equipment. May design network or portion of network that include selection of hardware and software packages.



Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Science with 14 years of job related experience; 12 years with masters; 9 years with PhD. 18+ years of job relevant experience to the Aviation and Aerospace industry may be used in lieu of the education requirement.
• Must be willing to work a flexible work schedule that may include extended shifts, holidays and weekends that support on call status for 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week, and 365 days a year
• Must meed medical requirements for worldwide travel
• Must have and maintain a valid U.S. passport, accept customer furnished quarters for a period up to 120 days away from primary work location
• Must possess an active DoD Top Secret security clearance and be able to maintain that clearance and has the ability to obtain and retain Special Program access clearance within 365 days from submission.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Requirements Capture
• Test and Implementation
• Integrated Maintenance Data System
• Unix/Solaris Operating Systems and Principles
• Windows Server and Desktop versions
• Wide Area (WAN) and Local Area (LAN) networking
• Group policy design, testing and implementation
• Radio Frequency Transmission Systems
• Satellite Communications Systems
• Oracle RAC
• Virtualization

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